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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Droll is the boisterous, pratt-fall comedy of Guernsey-bosomed, muskellunge-mouthed Martha Raye; hilarious the portrayals of Concho, the Lone Rider's Indian chum, by flap-eared, long-nosed Bert Gordon (Radio's "Mad Russian"), whose accent is as thick as borsch with sour cream. Filling in for Ruby Keeler, who left the company in Chicago when ex-Husband Jolson's ad-libbing got in her hair, neatly turned Eunice Healey steps with precision through a show-stopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 23, 1940 | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...squeezed in a 73-year-old onetime insurance man named William M. Drennon as City Manager. Thus estopped in his valiant efforts to clean up dirty Kansas City, little (5 feet, 5½ inches) Mayor Smith resigned. "Hell," said he, "it makes me hot just to think of it." Flap-jowled Mr. Drennon coolly surveyed his spacious new office, announced that he proposed to cooperate with "the efficient remains of the machine," comfortably added: "I like good living. . . . This place suits me fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Hell in Kansas City | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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