Word: toed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Already in this war, said M. Giraudoux, more British sailors and French soldiers have been lost than in those "battles to save the world- Thermopylae and Valmy."* Moreover, "even if it means boring the world to tears," the Allies are not going to bother about giving a "performance packed with...
The New Hellzapoppin (produced by Olsen & Johnson). When Hellzapoppin opened last season the critics muttered a curt No, but the public howled an emphatic Yes, has been howling Yes, Yes, a Thousand Times Yes ever since. When the new Hellzapoppin opened last week, the critics acknowledged themselves licked. They knew...
Since the old Hellzapoppin was played fortissimo, no term exists to express the racket made by the new one. It is all the panics in Wall Street, all the riots in lunatic asylums, all the election nights in Times Square, all the Fourths of July in history, and all the...
At last week's opening there was as much fun from out front as from the stage. When the cast went down into the aisles to dance a Boomps-a-Daisy with members of the audience, up rose Al Smith to tread a measure with alacrity and abandon, drew...
Stripped of its unsurpassable insanity, the new Hellzapoppin, like the old, is the worst kind of ham vaudeville. But, as a tourist once grumbled, "Take away the mountains and the lakes, and what is there to Switzerland?"