Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uncontrollable political machine has been built up whereby governmental control will be lodged in the hands of a few men and, with the confirmation of Judge Hughes, the control will embrace each of three coordinate branches of the Federal Government. . . . We'll be fortunate if we don't wake up to find the Supreme Court has handed down opinions which will give a monopoly in perpetuity to some one corporation...
Musical-A WONDERFUL NIGHT (Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus), BITTER SWEET, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, HEADS UP!, SONS O' GUNS, THE LITTLE SHOW, WAKE UP AND DREAM...
...detective, noted for his extreme lack of sympathy with bums, their troubles recommence. After eluding the detective they stumble into a "sapping day"-a roundup of hoboes by embattled farmers-are forced to run the gauntlet, finally escape to a deserted "jungle" and fall exhaustedly to sleep, only to wake in the arms of the police. A heartless judge gives them each 120 days in the county jail...
...Griffiths Brothers whose appearance disguised as a horse proves again that nothing is much funnier than the combination of animal aspect and human behavior. Neglecting ambitious scenery and lavish chorus effects, Mr. Cochran has revitalized the decrepit revue formula with large doses of the unfailing remedy of personality. Wake Up and Dream succeeds because it contains individuals who do individual things...
...only previous U. S. appearance was in Max Reinhardt's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1927) but she directed the dances for Noel Coward's recent revue This Year of Grace and his current musi-comedy Bitter Sweet. Most of the routines in Wake Up and Dream are also hers...