Word: hellzapoppin
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...girl, the ugly old dame by a man; and there is usually a stuffed cat or dog. Biggest pantomime hit is Humpty Dumpty, breaking all records at the Coliseum to the tune of ?9,000 a week. Its animal is a stuffed terrier, that, like the rubber plant in Hellzapoppin, grows bigger each time it puts in an appearance. Its topical song-which the audience joins in on-runs: "When shall I see a banana again, tell me, mother...
...another feeble attempt to duplicate the popularity of their stage show, "Hellzapoppin," by a cinema "extravaganza," Olsen and Johns on have once again wasted yards of valuable film. Unfortunately, the creators of "Crazy House" tried to toss a plot into the script, thereby only adding to the general confusion. Olsen and Johnson play themselves, supposedly banned from their studio by an irate producer. Undaunted, they form their own company, with Franchot Tone as director and a would-be millionaire as financial backer. Tone, as talent scout, discovers the love interest--Marsha Hunt. In an hour and a quarter of slapstick...
Just 42 days after the fall of Tunis, a photographic record of the U.S. African campaign went up on the walls of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. It was a one-man show by LIFE Staff Photographer Eliot Elisofon (pronounced, by pals, Hellzapoppin). In it were 113 pictures of almost every aspect of the American occupation. Missing: views of U.S. dead, Elisofon prints of which were not released by the War Department...
...Hellzapoppin exercise" is the toughest. Under live machine-gun fire, with tanks charging and land mines exploding, two platoons of students advance through open terrain, firing mortars, rifles, machine guns. In these and other battle exercises, students alternate as commanders. At course's end each student grades his platoonmates on the priceless quality: military leadership. Averaged with instructors' grades, these ratings make up T.I.S.'s estimate of how well its alumni will do in battle...
...real value difference between consumer purchasing power and consumer goods and services left to be purchased when most productive resources have been diverted to building up the war machine. The gap is the root of the price and wage rises, which accompany inflation. The potted plant in the Hellzapoppin show grew no more quickly than does inflation; stabilizing prices and wages only lops off its branches, and does not prevent the rapid growth of the trunk. Unless the roots are killed, more and bigger branches are bound to grow. Obviously the only sound procedure for eliminating the inflationary...