Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next to Salome's, the most popular of operatic strip teases is that of Massenet's sin-shunning Thais. Because dramatic sopranos with decently strippable figures are rare, and because Massenet's music and drama are otherwise soupy and dull, Thais is nowadays seldom performed. Greatest of all Thais strippers was famed Diva Mary Garden, who introduced the part to the U. S. in 1907; last at Manhattan's Metropolitan was tempestuous Maria Jeritza, 13 years ago. Last week the Metropolitan revived Thais, in one of the most lavishly costumed productions of its recent years. This...
...century-ago Irish immigrants who fill her house, and sneering at all foreigners who are non-Irish, she is finally read a lecture on Americanism and the melting pot, quickly mends her ways. The play is well-meaning, noisy, false: the Maggie and Jiggs set transferred from comic strip to stage...
...thinking, won the war several times for the fascists; and now so gleefully sounds the funeral dirge of the Republic. The facts should be understood. Catalonia itself is not yet conquered, while the MadridValencia sector remains entirely firm. In the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, all but a very narrow strip of seacoast was taken, only to be won completely back within two years...
Last November Representative Martin Dies's Congressional Committee on Un-Americanism threatened to summon Louise Hovick (strip-name: Gypsy Rose Lee) to testify about a Hollywood party to raise money for Spanish Loyalists. Interviewed in Manhattan last week, Miss Hovick suggested that she and Representative Dies form a vaudeville team. Said she: "With my act and his publicity we could bring back vaudeville...
...Blondie," a screen adaptation of the famous newspaper comic strip, bogs down in occasional nauseating bits of slushy sentimentality, but the antics of Dagwood and Baby Dumpling generally prove amusing...