Word: americana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coloma, in the mountains, about 18 hours' journey from the fort. . . . It was a rainy afternoon. . . . Suddenly Mr. Marshall burst into the room, he was soaking wet. . . . a piece of cotton from his pocket ... a lump of yellowish metal. . . . Then I read an article in the Encyclopedia Americana. I told Marshall then that his metal was pure gold in the virgin state. . . ." But the news...
...Significance. It remained for a Frenchman, a world-wide knockabout himself, to resurrect this California Midas whom our swarming old-Americana hunters have overlooked. Perhaps Sutter was put from memory for conscience's sake, but now he is back, a mighty, marvelous, golden ghost. Author Cendrars's rushing historical present is a handsome medium for the sweep of such fortunes and fates. If he has anywhere exaggerated, which seems inevitable, who cares...
Foibles of the flesh, diversions of the eye and ear, are agreeably presented in: lolanthe, Americana, Scandals, Great Temptations, Sunny, The Vagabond King...
Normal revue humor on large stages usually depends on the comedian's ability to shout: "That was no lady, that was his wife." In a miniature, satirical show like Americana the attack is subtler. A satire on Rotary Club speeches, a burlesque jazz opera, a tabloid newspaper number, and a burlesque Hamlet done in the manner of The Student Prince are the major features. There are only a handful of chorus girls; each in her time plays many parts. The scenery is by the briskly amusing John Held Jr. Charles Butterworth, Notre Dame 1923 and utterly unknown to Broadway...
...stodgy boarding house. WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS-Helen Hayes and a crisp troupe redealing one of J. M. Barrie's winning hands. MUSICAL The song and dance situation should first be investigated via Sunny, Ziegfeld Revue, Passions of 1926 (formerly The Merry World), The Vagabond King, Scandals, Americana, lolanthe...