Word: take-off
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Cinemactress Lupe Velez, doing a vaudeville turn in Manhattan, wowed backstagers with an Adolf Hitler takeoff. "That Heetler ees my best take-off," she conceded modestly. "For a few friends I take off that Heetler, yes, but for the public, no! An artist has no business mixing up with politeecs...
...when they travesty them, they are delightful. The Piccoli take-off of a red-hot Negro jazz band going into spasms and contortions of rhythm is brilliant burlesque. So is their exaggeratedly alcoholic and rumba-ridden picture of a Havana nightspot. And the temperamental concert pianist, frenziedly pounding away at the Second Hungarian Rhapsody, affectedly fiddling with his coat tails, orchidaceously turning the pages of his music, is not only a miracle of string-pulling, but a hilarious parody of 1,001 humbugs who have infested the concert halls of the world...
...Came to Dinner. Kaufman & Hart's very unflattering but very funny take-off on Alexander Woollcott (TIME...
...John Reith figured the twice-floundered Corsair still worth a muckle. He sent a fellow Scot, braw George Halliday, Imperial Airways sectional engineer, out from Cairo. By this time the river had gone down and there would not again be enough water for a take-off till spring of 1940. Scot Halliday figured Congo weather would have ruined the Corsair utterly by then...
...over his billing. But as Cohan matures, the story mellows, draws an affectionate picture of the Great Flag-Waver in his prime. Playing the old songs, bringing on the scene David Belasco, Fay Templeton, George Arliss, Yankee Doodle Boy marches up to 1939. Of young James Graham's take-off of Cohan's take-off of F. D. R. in I'd Rather Be Right, Cohan remarked: "The kid did it better than...