Word: vaudevillian
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...World's Worst Juggler." At times he also did a ventriloquist's bit with a dummy named Jake. He had outdistanced the drag-off hooks with which managers yanked booed performers into the wings, but he was still patronizingly tagged as a "coast defender," i.e., a smalltime vaudevillian who played only Boston and such outlying provinces as Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont...
...year ago, when M-G-M made Unfinished Melody, about the life of onetime Metropolitan Opera Soprano Marjorie Lawrence, Soprano Farrell went to Hollywood to dub in her voice (the part was played by Cinemactress Eleanor Parker). Singer Farrell displayed all the instincts of a born vaudevillian. Says she: "When Lawrence drops to the stage with polio while singing the Liebestod, I sang with frogs in my throat because she wasn't feeling well, and then I cracked at the end when she falls down. Can I crack at will...
When the spirit moved him, he was still the racy raconteur and acrobatic vaudevillian who could have panicked the Palace. He was also the best manager in the majors. But even Casey was hard put to explain how he did it this year...
...worth producing unless it promises to enrich its backers as a long-run hit. Last week, however, Broadway blossomed with a smash hit that broke rules, and may break records. The American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA) opened its revival of Thornton Wilder's timeless piece of vaudevillian anthropology. The Skin of Our Teeth, first produced in 1942 (and greeted by a mixed chorus of cheers and catcalls-plus a Pulitzer Prize). The ANTA production's glittering stars: the U.S. theater's Grande Dame Helen Hayes and Producer-Director-Playwright George Abbott as mankind's eternal...
...Seven Little Foys (Paramount) has a story as relentlessly cute as an elephant in pinafores. Bob Hope, cast as the late Vaudevillian Eddie Foy, is supposed to be so allergic to women that in years of married life he sees his wife (Milly Vitale) only the minimum amount of time necessary to father seven children. What he does with the time thus saved is never fully explained. According to the movie, his principal nonworking pastimes are playing pool and trading insults with James Cagney, thinly disguised as Hoofer George M. Cohan...