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...relief ship from getting through the fast-knitting ice. When radio messages from the ship abruptly cease, he takes to futile bawling and sulking in his private cubbyhole. His shillyshallying in the face of a near mutiny results in the loss of an aviator and plane; another aviator, named Brice (Reed Brown Jr.), takes charge of the camp, sets grimly about digging in for another winter on a six-week food supply. But Hartley's life-long luck comes out of temporary hiding, and Brice, after forcing promises from all hands that none of the "messy" incidents shall...
...Leslie a new Blackbirds. Walter Hampden is rehearsing Ruy Bias. Max Gordon is making ready Gowns by Roberta, with music & libretto by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. The Brothers Shubert, scrambling out of bankruptcy, have already presented Joe Cook to gasping audiences, will put on a Follies with Fanny Brice. In collaboration with Jed Harris the Shuberts will produce The Green Bay Tree, a play about sexual abnormality calculated to shock as thoroughly as did The Captive. A sequel to Of Thee I Sing, by the same authors and with the same cast, will appear soon, to be called...
...second act is frankly vaudeville. Giving in to the frantic cries of the guests, Miss Loftus does excellent parodies of Ethel Barrymore, Pauline Lord, Fannie Brice, Constance Collier and any vaudeville duo singing "It's Wonderful, It's Marvelous." Suddenly Mrs. Campbell turns from her formidably charming self into something strange and pretentious reciting Hecuba's speech from Euripides' The Trojan Women, then a fable about a mermaid. A girl sings some songs. The guests scream interminably for more...
Though it contains nothing so elaborate as the Gold Diggers' shadow waltz, and no songs likely to prove as catchy as those in Forty-Second Street, Moonlight and Pretzels has a little more authentic Broadway flavor than either. This and another advantage-that it cost Monte Brice and William Rowland, who produced it for Universal, only about $150,000-are probably due to the fact that it was manufactured not in Hollywood, but at Paramount's former (L. I.) studio which has been unused for two years...
...become Mayor of Minneapolis. He was Alexander Gilberg ("Buzz") Bainbridge, a political novice, looking older and wiser than his 47 years. As a Republican he had just defeated Farmer-Laborite Mayor William A. Anderson in a nip & tuck election. Mayor Anderson had kept Minneapolis from seeing Crazy Quilt, Fanny Brice's raw revue. He had vetoed the city's beer ordinance, sent citizens to St. Paul for Sunday drinks. Many a Minneapolitan, weary of reform, turned hopefully to "Buzz" Bainbridge and he did not disappoint them. With a theatrical flourish the Mayor-elect declared...