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Good worry banishers are these: Manhattan Mary, The Mikado, Connecticut Yankee, Hit the Deck, Chauve-Souris, Good News...
...Fields also wrote the jokes for the furiously successful Hit the Deck...
Lighter moments are agreeably numerous in The Mikado, Manhattan Mary, Good News, A Night in Spain, Chauve-Souris, Hit the Deck...
...question has often been raised as to whether Italy was the originator of the game, and the Tarocchi pack of 78 cards has been held by many to be the first version of the modern deck. The Tarocchi consists of 22 Atutti cards and 56 Cartaccie, the latter containing four suits, each with four court cards instead of the usual three. These are the King, Queen, Knight, and Valet. The suit marks are Clubs, Coins, Cups, and Swords, and are held to be symbolic of the four orders of society, the church, the nobility the traders, and the rascal multitude...
...French pack in the collection bears evidence of having been used for one of the original purposes of cards, that of fortune-teelling. The cards in this pack are covered with weird words and marks scrawled on their faintly colored greasy surface. Another ancient deck from France shows beautifully engraved nobles and ladies on, its court cards, executed with all the finesse of a Holbein or a Durer...