Word: tuneless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world is Bill Robinson, long a spot of interest on Keith's tours. His feet are as quick as a snare drummer's hands; in Blackbirds he has a double flight of five stairs which, when he trots up and down it, produces a rapid tuneless and delicious music. Bill Robinson makes the show; if he were on the stage more of the time he would make the show a lot better. Not but what Adelaide Hall, with her hoarse, high voice, and an energetic chorus make Blackbirds, despite dull moments, the best coon show in town...
With the help of Ted Lewis, several comedians of distinctly high calibre, and a wealth of color and gorgeous effects, the "Passing Show of 1923" Monday night at the Shubert made a successful entrance among Boston's theatrical entertainments. And this in spite a tuneless score, a glaring lack of "feminine pulchritude", and a few heavy, mediocre scenes. The producer and cast, 'tis true, had a pretty flimsy foundation to build upon. Much of the humour was stale and slapstick, and in not a few cases meager ideas succeeded only through the brilliance in their execution. Yet at other times...
Clothed in the cast-off garments of Apollo, with a crown of bay generally askew, strumming at intervals a tuneless lyre, the genius of the paper has lived on unchallenged and unchallenging while its mascot Pegasus has remained fast tethered in his stall...