Word: yips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clifford, who overrode the objections of her husband and became a Chautauqua circuit storyteller. One of her favorite numbers: the story of Persian Prince Sticky-sticky-stombo-no-so-rombo-hody-body-bosco-ica-non-nun-a -non-combo-tombo-rombo, who drowned in a well, wherefore his brother Yip became king...
...Michael Curtiz' broad-brushed management of a scene in which the entire cast of 1918-5 Yip Yip Yap hank, on the closing night, marches from the stage through the audience to their France-bound transport. This scene, almost as good as similar tearjerkers in Cavalcade, is new with the film version...
...timers" number, featuring some grizzled, winning atavists from World War I's Yip Yip and climaxing in sad-face Patriot Irving Berlin's almost voiceless, endearing rendition of O How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning...
...meanwhile, Variety was writing of Sergeant Irving Berlin's Yip...
...Yip, Yap hank, "A great show by a great bunch. There's no theatrical manager who wouldn't grab it without the uniforms." Private Earl Carroll made half of a recruiting act which played Manhattan vaudeville theaters. Federal officers seized copies of the song It'll Be a Hot Time for the Old Boys when the Young Men go to War. Notable entertainers who volunteered to go overseas were John Drew, Billie Burke, Jane Cowl. Lillian Russell, Walter Damrosch. Maude Adams...