Word: yox
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...bagel looks like a month-old doughnut and tastes delicious. A yuk (plural, yox) is a belly laugh. There are plenty of both in the new Yiddish-English revue at the Shubert. A group of Harvard men pass out bagels and cream cheese during intermission and the show takes care of the rest...
Despite the obvious handicaps of a tinny bunch of musicians and a backdrop that looks like it was filched from the Old Howard, Bagels and Yox is good enough to keep a packed house holding its sides for close to three hours. Most of the acts are vaudeville, but the subtleties of Yiddish vaudeville are as good as anything the Palace ever had. And there are enough English jokes to keep those who cannot understand Yiddish from becoming completely frustrated. Once in a while a moldy yuk shoves its way in among the crisp ones, but never enough...
...understand Yiddish, you will soon realize that the Boston censor probably cannot speak a word of it. But even if you don't know a bagel from a kugel, an evening spent at Bagels and Yox will be thoroughly enjoyable...
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