Word: arens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Band can only look to Bill Bingham and the H. A. A. But there the surplus is yearly fed into the starving little Conant-Bingham Athletic Endowment Fund and the Band left to its own devices. True, the athletes aren't squalling for subsidization, but the footballers don't buy their own helmets (nor does the Band buy caps--they can't afford them). Harvard has long had one of the best drilled and worst dressed bands in the East. Johnny and the boys are beginning to feel that they're not getting a square deal. But financial arrangements...
Rodgers & Hart, who can usually save any show from taking a nose dive, aren't quite able to save this one. Their score is agreeable enough, with a few good swinging tunes like Disgustingly Rich and How's Your Health. But it's their slimmest job in a number of years. Making her first U. S. appearance in musicomedy, Hungarian Actress Marta Eggert (wife of Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura) is pleasing but not outstanding; returning to Broadway after seven years in Hollywood, Comic Jack Haley is amusing but not uproarious. Biggest thing in the show...
...world premiere of Ann Sheridan's forthcoming starring vehicle "It All Came True" is held at the University Theatre at the end of this month it won't be because Harvard officials aren't doing their best to prevent...
...Harvard men aren't all gentlemen," she continued, "but I must say for them that they can drink mere with less unconsciousness than any of the boys from the other schools. Another feature of Boston which I like is the Blue Laws, because a performer here can at least be sure of when she is going to bed. In New York it's a lot different, and much more fatiguing...
...above this reviewer would like to add a word about jitterbugging in general. A great many people say that it is unsightly. We agree that very often jitterbugs don't look too aesthetic in their dancing. But this is usually because they aren't dancing well--because they are dancing stiffly--and therefore get out of time with dire results to their steps. Good dancing of this type, done well, is as (or more) attractive than a great deal of the ballroom dancing today. If you don't think this is true, watch some good colored dancers when they aren...