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...Primrose Path (By Robert L. Buckner & Walter Hart; produced by George Abbott). Eccentric families have become common as dirt on the stage. The family in The Primrose Path is not only screwy but scandalous. Overflowing a ramshackle homestead, the Wallaces, except for one unsociable white sheep who insists on being respectable, are a cheerfully depraved clan. Grandma is a gamy old bawd, who in her day plucked most of the primroses along the path. Her married daughter, Emma, is a talented and popular lady of the evening. Her granddaughter, Eva, too young to do anything worse than swear like...
...Producer Abbott apparently believes that the impending suit will not affect the play, for the family of February Hill is named Harris and lives in Fall River, whereas the family of The Primrose Path is named Wallace and lives in "a small town near Buffalo...
...athletes: Richard Holder '40 and Donald MacD. Thurber '40 in radio broadcasting;. Theodore L. Lipin '42, Clifford S. Goodman, Jr. '42, Francis E. Condon '41, John Sinnott, Jr. '39, and Carl Weihl '42 in chemistry; Richard D. Schleuer '40 and Robert W. Hartle '42 in photography; R. Tucker Abbott '42 in nature study; Dewey K. Zeigler '41; Elliot Silverman IG in astronomy; David J. Myerson '40 in the study of guinea pigs; Eugene F. Putas '40 in ichthyology; Robert T. Matzner '41 and Alan D. Conger '40 in biology; John W. Lampel, Jr. '42 and David S. Grey...
Only now development in the two day old Georgian strike yesterday was the eviction of the strikers from their temporary headquarters in the district office of the American Student Union in the Abbott Building on Harvard Square when the owner threatened not to renew the lease...
...troop of headliners associated with The Boys from Syracuse is no mere Who's Whooey. Every one knows his job. Every cook makes a contribution to the broth. Playwright Abbott provides a sound book (least brilliant part of the show) ; Director Abbott, whirlwind direction that keeps it moving, moving, moving; Comic Jimmy Savo contributes wild-eyed dimwit mischief; Fat Girl Wynn Murray, dishpan antics and Amazonian sex threats; Lorenz Hart, brash, bawdy, witty lyrics (best line: She was so chaste that it made her very nervous); Rodgers, a gay, bright lilting score, never better than it is in This...