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Died. Charles Waldron, 71, character actor, veteran of 400-odd roles (among his sinister creations: Edward Moulton-Barrett in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Senator Ellsworth Langdon in now-playing Deep Are the Roots); in Hollywood...
...bankroll. It was a good bet that Southworth would soon corral, at a fancy price, some of the players who had hustled for him in St. Louis. It was equally likely that he would go on working wonders like his 1945 Card trick with Pitcher Charlie Barrett. Barrett, a no-count Brave tossed into the $50,000 deal for Mort Cooper, won 21 games for St. Louis under Southworth's persuasive handling...
PITCHING Lost Won 4 Borowy, Chgo. 11 9 Brecheen, St. L. 15 7 Wyse, Chgo. 22 9 Burkhart, St. L. 18 10 Mungo, N. Y. 14 10 Barrett, St. L. 23 8 Passeau, Chgo. 17 12 Prim, Chgo. 13 9 Gables, Pitts. 11 11 Strincevich,Pitts.16
...sixth inning Wallace decided to make the game more even by handing out a run free of charge. He walked the first batter, Tom Barrett, then picked up Duke Duzukola's easy grounder and spoiled a double killing by heaving the pellet to Carlton in centerfield, Barrett and Duzukola advancing a base of course. Then came the first of two wild pitches, but Eckenroth's throw to Wallace was in time to catch Barrett coming home. On the next wild heave, which Wallace threw soon afterwards, they weren't quickly enough to nab Duzukola before he could cross the platter...
...source of innocent merriment, that some of the first characters to appear rattled off their lines too fast so that the audience decided they couldn't follow it anyway and didn't try, the lines of the main actors came out with clearness, force, and elegance, (to use Barrett Wendell's trilogy of requirements for writing a phrase which is a nutshell still unrivalled). Beatrice was has bewitching a heroine as ever roadway has produced, and her startling line. "Kill Claudio," though everyone knew it was coming, gave a genuine theatre-thrill...