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Antics too trite to be really funny seemed funny last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. A beggar walked on stage leading a dog with a BLIND sign around its neck and the audience guffawed when it was told that the dog was blind, not the master. Little George Meader caused a big laugh when he appeared made up as the Mad Hatter, tripped over a carpet bag, played a serenade on a red silk umbrella. Tenor Walther Kirchhoff was no funnier than usual but the audience snickered when he came out carrying a sun flower. Occasional exclamations...
...Manhattan he became more and more deeply involved. Extravagant living made hopeless any effort to pay his debts. At the end of four years a court demand for an accounting of his trust caused the final break. Walking with his wife one day Chapin was accosted by an aged beggar woman. His wife shuddered and said: "Suppose I should come to that." Chapin, already planning suicide, feared what might befall his wife after he was gone. That night in their room in the Hotel Plaza, he shot her, watched for two hours until she was dead. Then he forgot...
From burdock roots, whose clinging burrs ("beggar buttons") annoy rural promenaders, catch in hunting dogs' tails, John Christian Krantz Jr., 31, director of pharmaceutical research for Sharp & Dohme (Baltimore chemists), produced cookies and bread which diabetics may eat with benefit, he told the University of Maryland Biological Society last week...
Ames, formerly managing director of the New Theatre is now manager of the Little and Booth Theatres in New York. His recent productions include "The Green Goddess", "Old English", and "The Merchant of Venice" with George Arliss, as well as "Beggar on Horseback", "White Wings" and "Escape". He will speak on his own methods of producing a play...
Once In A Lifetime. Although George S. Kaufman has rarely written a play all by himself, he has brightened many a theatrical season with shows in whose making he collaborated (June Moon, Beggar on Horseback, Dulcy, Merton Of The Movies). With Moss Hart the whimsically insane Kaufman touch has surpassed itself in producing Once In A Lifetime, a merciless, hilariously funny lampoon on Hollywood and the cerebral content of its creatures. The only possible adverse criticism of the play might come from spectators for the near savagery of some of the blows which Mr. Kaufman deals to cinema folk with...