Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capacity for natural acting are bound to put across any production, no matter how fantastic its plot or how mediocre its songs. Not that the plot of "Broadway Melody of 1940" is fantastic as musical comedy plots go. Fred Astaire and George Murphy appear first as the tap-dancing team at a small and not too swanky cafe. There they are seen by agent Frank Morgan, who spots Fred as a potential star. However, by a slight mistake in the front office, George Murphy is hired to be Eleanor Powell's male lead in her new show. Then comes trouble...
...rottenness and unfairness of this system of recognizing merit cannot be denied. The team is saddled with rank and totally unnecessary injustice. The solution is obvious and compelling. Letters must be awarded to all who compete against Yale, should they tap the edge a glorious first, or a die-hard fourth...
...tap-room every night...
...Columnist Westbrook Pegler, repeating an incessant Washington rumor that accused FBI of collecting secret dossiers on most of official Washington, snarled: "The FBI cooperates with police departments which tap wires of family telephones and even, in one incredible case . . . took phonograph records and moving pictures, on suspicion, of conversations and scenes within the bedroom of husband and wife...
...Show (sketches & lyrics by Nancy Hamilton, music by Morgan Lewis; produced by Gertrude Macy & Stanley Gilkey). Tap-happy and tuneful, Two For The Show popped open like a bottle of champagne with a skit on The Man Who Came To Dinner. From then on an ebullient cast banged, blared, danced and gabbed merrily into first-night favor. Richard Haydn, who can imitate a fish, gave an imitation of a Cockney lecturer on cookery; as he sucked in his "h's" he almost showed his gills. Blonde Betty Hutton, ballyhooed as "America's No. 1 Jitterbug," shook the props...