Word: teasers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Victor Herbert is distinguished for providing Allan Jones the first film part worthy of his silken tenor. It also brings to the screen for the first time Mary Martin, glamorous Texas strip teaser, whose song, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, was the hit of the 1938 Broadway musical season. A little skinny on the stage, Miss Martin's figure is enhanced by the tendency of the camera to fill out curves...
...Wagner Act; rehabilitate the railroads. A major effort by Joe Martin's House Republicans last week to discontinue the President's power to decrease further the dollar's gold content was defeated 225 to 158. >Received last week by many a Republican politico was a "teaser" postcard setting forth magnificent qualifications for the "logical Republican candidate for President." It was followed by a card naming "the man who fulfills ALL requirements!!!!" The man named: Senator Henry Styles Bridges of New Hampshire...
...uncertainty over the new Congress, worry over international squabbles, timidity engendered by the start of the "opoly" hearings. More tangible is the point that the Government's spending, even though operating at a level $400,000,000 greater than last year, is again proving to be a mere teaser. All this greatly amused Germany's Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. With German industrial production up 100% in five years, he took occasion in a Berlin speech to praise a "directed economy," crack that Germany had not needed to "finance consumption through the arbitrary scattering of money...
Battle of Broadway (Twentieth Century-Fox). At an American Legion convention, ex-Doughboys Brian Donlevy and Victor McLaglen are pleased to meet tall, dark-haired, full-lipped ex-Strip Teaser Gypsy Rose Lee who sings "I am the Daughter of Mademoiselle from Armentières." When she continues...
...dream takes him to old Bagdad, where he is received by the Sultan and Sultana (former Strip-Teaser Gypsy Rose Lee). Eddie earns the gratitude of the harassed Sultan by setting up a New Deal, with himself as Prime Minister. Some of his projects: improved breadlines (one for rye, one for whole-wheat), a tax on wives, bridges for riverless Bagdad* (the rivers to be dug later), dancing lessons for the masses, filling stations for camels...