Word: vaudevillians
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...Oldtime Vaudevillian Joe Frisco, still wearing his tramp clothes but without his stutter, caps the funniest of the nonsensical interludes. When the young people (Ginny Simms and Robert Paige) settle themselves on a park bench for what promises to be a familiar lovers' scene, up pops Frisco from behind the bench with an expression of terrible pain on his face. He proceeds to kid the cooing with a disrespect for the romantic routine that should make this scene worth the price of admission to moviegoers who are weary of screen mush...
...party in Manhattan's swank Hotel Pierre, a young man with a gold discharge button in his lapel bounded to the platform with the aplomb of an old vaudevillian. His selections from Broadway's Song of Norway and Carousel stopped the show. Last week, one of the guests, a Broadway agent, signed the singing war veteran to a contract, and had high hopes of landing him a fat part in a musical comedy. For husky Sidney Lawson, 23, it was quite a step. Only a month ago he was a member of the Society of Timid Souls...
...pleasant if not terribly exciting idea is to bring hypercorporeal Jack Oakie, an oldtime music-hall magician, back to earth as a ghost to: 1) help his daughter (Peggy Ryan) put her vaudevillian blood into circulation; 2) scare a housemaid (Irene Ryan) by walking invisibly behind her on squeaky shoes; 3) frustrate and reform a family tyrant (Gene Lockhart); 4) try to explain to his own widow (June Vincent) that the "dark lady" (Karen Randle) he walked off with, some 18 years before, was no lady, but the Angel of Death...
Frank Fay, oldtime vaudevillian whose wistful-mellow portrait of a drunk with an imaginary rabbit (Harvey) enchants Broadway audiences, was the best actor of the 1944-45 theatrical season, according to Variety's annual critics' poll. Best actress: Oldtimer Laurette (Peg O' My Heart) Taylor in The Glass Menagerie...
...most unpredictable tour of duty was with the actors (as press agent) of This Is the Army. At drill, intimidated sergeants would hesitate to give the order "Fall Out" because of the three or four irrepressibles who obeyed by falling flat on their faces. One day an ex-vaudevillian was assigned to calisthenic drill. "Inhale!" he shouted. The men inhaled. "Outhale!" They outhaled. "Sidehale!" "What the hell is that?" a regular corporal demanded. "A new breathing method. Field Manual 36-B, with Kreplach...