Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Waukegan, Ill. last week, a stage show started on its rounds billed as Uncle Tom's Cabin in Swing. The swing was all there, in a noisy, nickel-in-the-slot sort of way; but Uncle Tom's Cabin was not. In his 87 years in the theatre, Uncle Tom has taken some awful beatings-from stagefolk as well as from Simon Legree-but never a worse one than at Waukegan, where there was no auction block, no whipping post, no bloodhounds, no Eliza crossing the ice. Topsy and Little Eva remained-but precious little...
...alumna named Ruth Farm; and a tall, taffy-haired trouper named Ann Graham, from Birmingham, Ala. Ann, the chattier, said she had sung with Goodman and Vallée, aimed at musicomedy stardom and then marriage with a theatre-world mate. Said velvety Ann, discouraging any number of unseen stage-door Johnnies: "You know the average businessman can't afford to stay up as late...
...Chez Paree, on Chicago's North Side, trim, blonde, blue-eyed Dorothy Laxon, 22, of Minneapolis, told her tale. She took up dancing at 12, got her stage start five years ago with one of Packer George A. Hormel's traveling shows to advertise Hormel meat products. Rather than risk winding up her career as a Spam actress, Dorothy sent her picture to Chez Paree, has been one of 17 girls in the line there for four years. Dorothy's ambition: a chance in a Broadway show...
...Primrose Path (R. K. O.) was a rollicking stage play about a gamy family whose life and loves were as broad as their humor was low. Grandma was the central figure, and what a figure. She did and said whatever she liked, and Grandma liked it carnal. Her gay married daughter ran her a close second. And her tough little granddaughter was never far behind. There were some other characters in the play, but they were poor ordinary mortals whose problems seemed sordidly normal beside this engagingly ribald trio...
...vehicle for the waxing dramatic talents of Ginger Rogers, The Primrose Path is something of a tumbril. This is too bad for serious Cinemactress Rogers and Director Gregory La Cava, who has produced such topnotchers as Stage Door and My Man Godfrey...