Word: flannelings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Johnson's Dramatic Interlude The Story. Two rivals aspire for the hand of Rita Kilblaine, nee Majendie, beautiful young widow of an old roué. One of the rivals is Dan Haggerty, he-man from the flannel-shirted West. The other rival is one Captain Daingerfield, who, by way of contrast, is no wizard at business. In fact, his obliging old uncle has settled an allowance of $20,000 a year on him with the express stipulation that he is not to attempt any more business...
...NERVOUS WRECK-The inspiriting effect of a flivver and of faith on a neurasthenic youth who goes, for farcical purposes, to the wide open spaces of the flannel shirt...
...songs, with the probable exception of "Toodle-oo", is as distinctive or quite as catchy as "Bambalina" or "Wildflower", every single song is upleasing, and as we have said, appropriate to the scene in which it comes. The special music, such as "The Rumble of the Subway" and "The Flannel Petticoat Girl", is picturesque and effective...
...scene in which about a dozen of the chorus gambol in the costumes of a generation or so age, (we aren't quite suro how many generations), and some of the "boys" pose in an old-time daguerreotype was second to none we have ever seen. That tune, "The Flannel Petticoat Girl" emphasized the absurdity of the disguises somehow, with the most wonderfully rollicking rhythm, while those caricatures paraded back and forth, encore after encore...
...consumption of magazines, like the consumption of flannel underwear and hot tamales, is regional in its distribution. Professor Ward G. Reeder of Ohio State University examined the question, published his results. He based his calculations on the circulation of " ten magazines having the largest circulation."- The startling point of the survey is that, although most magazines are published in the East, most magazines are read in the West. The calculations show the percentage of the entire population which is supposed to be the magazine-reading public. District of Columbia 3.7 California 25.8 Oregon 24.9 Washington 24.1 Nevada 21.25 Wyoming...