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Billion Dollar Baby (books & lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; music by Morton Gould; produced by Paul Feigay & Oliver Smith) takes a cockeyed look, through purple-colored glasses, at the fantastic '20s. In a swirl of burlesque it lurches through speakeasies, totters through dance marathons, plugs racketeers, pummels gold diggers, plays hob with billionaires. Almost all of it is bold and un-Broadwayish, and bits and pieces of it are delightful. But as a whole, it doesn't quite come...
...Eliot steamroller which dominated the intramural loop this season placed seven men on the All-House football team announced by Adolph W. Samborski '25 yesterday. Notable for the absence of Eliot's passer Herbie Eckenroth, who was master of the intramural airways before the Varsity squad grabbed him, the team bears eloquent testimony to the omnipotence of the sailor powerhouse...
Betty Comden and Adolph Green have written a book, it says on the program, but it doesn't amount to much. The "story" is about a Staten Island flapper who wanted to marry money and did, after losing a Miss America beauty contest, visting a speak on the arm of a fated gunman, eluding a greasy gin-mill manager, falling in love with another gunman, jilting a dance-marathon winner, and double-crossing the favored trigger...
Beatrice Bishop Berle, physician-wife of U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Adolph A. Berle Jr., was made an honorary member of the Rio Society of Medicine and Surgery, in recognition of her efforts to improve public health...
Slip of the Razor. Eventually, the Westmores landed in Hollywood. There, in 1920, Perc broke into the movies by rescuing Film Star Adolph Menjou from the effects of a hasty razor stroke. Menjou had inadvertently shaved off half his mustache just before he was to appear in The Three Musketeers. Young Perc, a beauty-shop apprentice, fixed up the mishap so expertly that he and his father were hired on the spot...