Word: funning
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Barry Was A Lady. Ethel has also made several cinemas, most notably Alexander's Ragtime Band, in which she gave Irving Berlin's classic tunes the de luxe plugging she had long since conferred on melodies of Gershwin and Porter. She has had some fun in Hollywood, including one session in which, during the absence of Don Ameche from his dressing room, she helped to nail his clothing to his furniture. On the whole she is not congenially disposed toward the cinema capital. Instead of the almost invariably warm audience just across the footlights, there are cold microphones...
...changed since some ardent Indian wrote the famous drinking song to the effect that "Dartmouth's in town again so run, girls, run," according to the Statler staff. "We've never had any trouble of that sort, either," Scanlon stated proudly "The boys and girls just have a little fun...
Malignant tubas, though, for fun, May coil about and strangle one. So with this constantly in mind, It trains you tuba very kind...
...every concertgoer knows, a full orchestra can be funny to watch. Published last week was a piccolo-sized book, People of Note (E. P. Dutton & Co.; $1), in which Versifier Laurence McKinney and Artist Gluyas Williams have some fun with musicmakers. The pictures, like "Oboe", are better than the verses. For Mr. McKinney takes his pun where he finds it, and finds it in unlikely places. Samples...
...nice thing about the labor stage is the good fun the actors continue to have before the footlights. They haven't become a bit sophisticated or world-weary with their antics. All of which, without pedagogy, proves a near point: that labor has won more friends by laughing at its enemies (and itself in many spots) than by a whole host of pamphlets...