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...Free is as genuinely native as a buck-&-wing on a xylophone. Three bored sailors tank up and pursue three slick chicks. Some of the action is more like expert pantomime than dancing. The pantomime is often nearly as funny as that of the late great Joe Jackson, the Tramp Bicyclist. The dancing is superb -acrobatic, "specialty," rumba, softshoe, adagio, eccentric, jitterbugging, knee-drops, slapstick, and a violent, half-hidden free-for-all on the floor behind the bar. Fancy Free's success has its 25-year-old choreographer in a state of amaze. Sharp-faced pint-sized Jerome...
...first: he moved directly from Columbia Law School to the stage. Frank, then a boy soprano at Manhattan's fashionable St. Thomas Church, later had one year of business administration at Cornell, a spell working for his father. He tried cowpunching in New Mexico, stoking coal on a tramp steamer, shooting professional pool. On March 11, 1914, he eloped from Manhattan to Hoboken with Alma Muller and "she's never left...
...plot included one tramp (Cagney) who turns out to have plenty on the ball, one lovable old lady who wins said tramp's friendship and aid in one balzing journalistic crusade against the forces of Evil in the town as personified by a crooked (-onely-don't-worrry-dear-reader-he-reforms-in-the-end-) politician, and his even crackeder cronies, one triangle (eternal), one father-and-son squabble, numerous fights (gun, fist, and umbrella), and, to add that necessary punch line, a gala torchlight parade to the local hoosegow...
...that the clientele would buy more drinks. To vote, you had to write your candidate's name on a cash-register receipt. Business zoomed. But the election almost went into a tailspin when a late starter appeared. The dark horse was a locally beloved dog named Tramp. When the final votes were counted Cowboy Evans nosed out Tramp by only 26 votes...
...There was no way to take a typewriter over the mountains to the front, so to write a story we had to tramp all the way back to the beach, board a ship, then borrow a typewriter. After that we had to walk back an hour or more to G-2 headquarters for censoring...