THEATRE: Show Business: May 8, 1939

> Still going strong after 18 months, Pins and Needles 1939, has basted in six new numbers, ripped out four old ones, looks better in its new dress. Best new gag: Neville Chamberlain's "if at first you don't concede, fly, fly again." Best new numbers: The Red Mikado which kids the Mikado epidemic with placards announcing a Flea Mikado and Strip Mikado. One of the neo-Gilbert lyrics:

Three little D. A. R.'s are we . . . Everything is a source of fun, We're all descended from Washington, We don't rent halls to...

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