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Harold Arlen and Vernon Duke Revisited

August 27, 2013 ypadmin

Harold Arlen and Vernon Duke Revisited. Painted Smiles Records B0002WPSJ4, 1991

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Will Hays who swings the busy axe
On movie aphrodisiacs,
The man who cleans the screen of scenes obscene,
Decided that a stitch in time
Would save both poor and rich, in time,
And thenceforth ruled all sweaters off the screen.
. . .
You can lap dissolve your thing-ums
In gay calicos or ginghams
Or accent your big broad A’s in velveteen;
And to meet the final hurdle
You can still let Boy Meet Girdle–
But Boy cannot meet Sweater on the screen.

Poem excerpt: “The Needle in the Hays Stack” (1941)
Written by Yip at the request of columnist Sidney Skolsky in response to a ban by the Hays Office (as Hollywood’s censorship office, headed by Will Hays,  was known at the time) on female stars wearing sweaters on the screen because they were considered too suggestive.

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