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Harvard and Radcliffe commuters decided Monday to give an original musical show about a proper New England girl, her bashful boyfriend, and her burlesque queen sister who lends a hand...
Some unaccountably stayed put. Sample: Mrs. Maud K. Stevenson Henjes. Last March, when she was still Maud Stevenson and yachtsman Robert H. Henjes was only her "boyfriend" (her own term), she & he tiffed. The tiff wound up in a Long Island police station where Maud, stripped down to brassiere and half slip, bit and kicked a cop like nobody's business...
...wins such hard-to-get parishioners with his regular-guy sincerity and his easy scorn of cant or ecclesiastical primness. Once, when a high-school audience began to settle back in boredom at being addressed by a pastor, he told them the story of the girl who called her boyfriend "Pilgrim" because every time he came over he made progress. The principal never asked him back, but the audience listened hard after that...
...Pringle girl (Virginia Welles)-secretly, in deference to the feud. When he ships overseas, his younger sister, Corliss (Shirley Temple), mixes in the intrigue and is spotted sneaking her sister-in-law into the obstetrician's. Shirley quixotically claims the pregnancy for herself and names her moony boyfriend (Jerome Courtland) as the reluctant father. What happens from that point on makes one of the year's fastest and funniest comedies...
When wellborn Erica Drake said she was going to marry her Jewish boyfriend, Father Drake howled his head off, Mother Drake wept torrents, the best people were appalled. But Erica stuck, to her guns. First published as a serial in Collier's, 30-year-old Author Graham's study of anti-Semitism in Canada would probably have stirred up more interest if it read more like a novel, less like a studied, romantic essay...