Word: hellzapoppin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hellzapoppin. In Chicago, after a blaze broke out in the lower depths of a restaurant known as Dante's Inferno and roared through its upper floors, ax-bearing firemen got at the flames by chopping their way past a large wooden figure of Satan guarding the entrance...
...success of the show is three-pronged: a matter of madness, precision and charm. The madness is a sort of scuffled Hellzapoppin, of light jolts and quick surprises. The audience seldom has a sense of what is coming and may quite literally be hit with it. The evening offers a series of memorably wacky pictures: a man contentedly nibbling a dog biscuit; a superb high-kicking chorus line with one girl always kicking the wrong leg; a male ballet dancer suddenly blushing at his own immodest tights...
...There's going to be hellzapoppin' in the steel industry all the rest of the year." So said Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace last week as the steel strike ended (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and he took a good look at piled-up demand. Like other steelmen, Grace reported that his company had "never been so low in working inventories of semi-finished steel," while its orders for structural steel were "greater than we've ever seen before." The unleashed steel demand was piling atop an economy already operating "at a record rate, well above...
Although there is no real form to the picture, it certainly does not ramble, being rather hectic in its jumble of gags and tableaux. The almost complete lack of transitions makes the action incomprehensible at times and is reminiscent of the Olson and Johnson Hellzapoppin' technique. But seeing April 1, 2000 is really a duty for those who collect rare movie going experiences...
Swaffer became a militant crusader for everything from Socialism to spiritualism. He claimed credit for driving stripteasers off the London stage, attacked Hellzapoppin for its vulgarity, denounced other second rate" American importations, fought rodeos as cruel to animals...