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...Fibber is always Fibber, but Molly plays many recurrent script characters-Grandma, frustrated Mrs. Wearybottom, Teeny, a neighbor's child famed for throwing Fibber for a minor loss every time she pops...
...blackmail (for instance, Germany forced Denmark to accept credits in coal, then, because Denmark was already oversupplied with British coal, charged storage on the undelivered coal). That Germany expected to get the Danish larder for nothing was indicated by what Danes were forced to accept for their goods-script money called Reichskreditkassen-scheine, carried by the invading troops...
Following Gilbert's script to the letter, but stirring ketchup into Sullivan's score, Tropical Pinafore shifted base from foggy England to a banana-bright Caribbean isle. Opening with a jungle chant that Sullivan neglected to write, it burst into syncopation when a huge, black, big-bosomed Little Buttercup appeared, calling Dick Deadeye picklepuss and shaking her gargantuan hips...
...Worlds remains a booful, baleful memory.* They will perhaps never think of Mercer County, N. J. except as the place where a series of rocket-machines once fictionally landed, loosing battalions of huge extra-terrestrial monsters. For those interested in 1) owning a copy of the celebrated script (with indicated sound effects); 2) enjoying a learned laugh over the things it made people do; 3) studying U. S. behavior when a panic is on, The Invasion from Mars,* provides a lively, sympathetic anatomizing of the Wells-Welles ruckus by Psychologist Hadley Cantril and a special staff of Princeton...
...save the U. S. from salacious magazines and other vile literature. He started to write a book - Wake Up Amer ica to Indecency. A friend thought it was just the thing for a movie. Four anonymous backers put up $100,000 for the production. A script was prepared, and the title stripped down to plain Indecency...