Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Musical: A WONDERFUL NIGHT, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, SONS O' GUNS, THE LITTLE SHOW, BITTER SWEET...
...since, obtaining sundry leaves of absence. Her only previous U. S. appearance was in Max Reinhardt's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1927) but she directed the dances for Noel Coward's recent revue This Year of Grace and his current musi-comedy Bitter Sweet. Most of the routines in Wake Up and Dream are also hers...
Famed actors and vaudevillians frequently gather and perform for the financial sake of some sweet charity, but musicians are supposedly more serious, isolated folk who do not indulge in such mass gestures. Thus it was contrary to precedent last week when, before a Manhattan audience of some 3,000, Soprano Lucrezia Bori permitted herself to be hoisted up on a piano by Pianist Ernest Schelling and to sit, swinging her pretty legs, singing Spanish songs. Pianists José Iturbi, Harold Bauer, Josef Lhevinne, Ernest Hutcheson, Harold Samuel, John Erskine, Rudolph Ganz and Olga Samaroff formed a three-team relay...
...presume you all know who I am. I am humble Abraham Lincoln. My politics are short and sweet, like the old lady's dance. . . . If elected I shall be thankful; if not all will be the same...