Word: vulgars
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...vaudeville bill at the Orpheum this week is better than usual. Bob Hall, who bases his work on the daring assumption that a vaudeville act can be amusing without being vulgar, is really entertaining with his extemporaneous verse and lyric philosophy. The three Tripp brothers and their female associates are better than the average comedian-dancers and the acrobats are unusually daring...
...shattered marriage indicates the intellectual plane of Chained. This does not prevent it from being an entertaining specimen of baloney cinema, replete with sex and high life. In it, Clark Gable wears a little mustache and Joan Crawford gives all she has to her performance as a lady. Most vulgar shot: Mike, Diane and their friend Johnnie (Stuart Erwin) unbuttoning their breeches after a large meal...
Along with Mr. Howard on the credit side of Keep Moving's ledger is a vulgar man named Clyde Hager. Right out of Gasoline Bill Baker's "Pipes from Pitch men" department in The Billboard, Mr. Hager, clutching suitcase and stand, scuttles back & forth across the stage pursued by a policeman until late in Act I. Then, setting up his tripes and keister, he proceeds to vend his patent potato peeler. It is all very authentic, with many protestations that his company is really giving away its product for advertising purposes and is willing to throw...
...Vagabond idled over the rail of bridge, concealed from the vulgar gaze by the gathering dusk and by the bulky base of the great salt-shaker pillar. The subway trains, momentarily elevated, flashed by, each square of light framing the back of a head, a neck and a pair of shoulders. Twelve minutes from the South Station, said the Rollo Book, in the misty past when the Vagabond made his first trip to Cambridge. As inaccurate as the catalogue estimates of laboratory hours. Twelve minutes to find the subway steps from the train concourse and twelve more underground totalled twenty...
Although certain instruments are capable of producing vulgar onomatopoeic sounds, the Committee of Five stated that it would censor only song words or titles with questionable or double meanings. It intends meeting weekly, publishing lists of banned titles, claims the backing of orchestra leaders throughout the land. Lists will also be sent to music publishers with requests that lyricists change their sentiments to conform to Committee of Five standards...