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Foxy transports Broadwayites to an antic, 1890s Yukon, where all the fool's gold is stashed in the pouches under Bert Lahr's eyes. When Lahr crosses those eyes, the showdown is eyeball-to-eyeball. When he rolls them deliriously around the socket rims, he looks like a pixilated squirrel who has forgotten where last summer's nuts are buried...
...death's door, with a fortune in nuggets to bestow. His greedy victims vie desperately with one another to show their love for Lahr. One of the sourdoughs, after snapping up a comely virgin for $33,000 on the Yukon's bullish bride market, even offers Bert the jus primae noctis. As for the gift, red-haired Julienne Marie, her wistful eyes and liquid singing voice alone are worth twice the auction price. Larry Blyden also shines as Dr. Mosk, the stethoscope-packing con man who masterminds Lahr's hoax...
...Baby ("Tell me lies, lies, lies"), Robert Emmett Dolan's score is rather do-re-mealy for Johnny Mercer's lyrics, which are at their cleverest in Bon Vivant, delivered by Lahr impersonating a British peer with mauve tweeds and a stiff upper lisp. In fact, without Bert Lahr's vintage hokum, Foxy would be earthbound, not mirthbound...
There were heroes for Princeton, too. Frank Satterthwaite withstood some torrid shotmaking by Johnny, Vinton and won in four games. In one of the day's biggest surprises, sophomore Bert Gay whipped Alan Terrell, 15-11, 15-10, 15-11 at number five. And Jim Lemons blanked Peter Brooks in the ninth match, 15-11, 15-12, 15-11. The Tigers played superb squash all day long, in every position. Harvard just had a bit of luck, a bit of good playing, and John Francis
Captain Toby Symington, who played number two last year, will be at number three today, with sophomore John Frazier behind him. Another soph, Bert Gay, fills the number five position, with tennis star Keith Jennings at number six, followed by Cuffy Train, Walt Smedley, and Jim Lemons...