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...chance to establish himself as a definite stage personality rather than a funny Broadway tap dancer. Called upon to impersonate a WPA music teacher who winds up as a master of ballet, his genuine charm and humor are instantly apparent. In fact, he and his teammate, pretty golden Doris Carson, seem to fit into that important theatrical niche vacated by the late Marilyn Miller & Jack Donahue...
...whole production bristles with talented contributions which stager Worthington Miner has welded into a highly animated, pleasingly smooth and sure-paced vehicle for the bright talents of Ray Bolger, Luella Gear, Tamara Geva, Doris Carson, Monty Woolley and a galaxy of well constructed demoiselles. The book represents the combined efforts of Messrs. George Abbott and the skilful team of Rodgers and Hart who have also supplied it with a variety of tuneful and well-worded songs. The accent is definitely on the dancing which has been supervised by George Balanchine, the eminent choreographer...
...Wainwright Building, in his own words, was and is "every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation . . . from bottom to top ... a unit without a single dissenting line." Many a disciple of the "International Style" prefers to think of Louis Sullivan as the designer of the Carson Pirie Scott store in the heart of Chicago's Loop. It has a curvilinear corner entrance, great windows and very little on its upper façade except for the terra cotta bands following the bare outlines of the building's steel skeleton. It was begun...
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...Bible's career has been a model of its kind. It seems to give him little satisfaction. A pot-bellied little man, whose brown, bald, elliptical head has developed an unmistakable resemblance to a football, he is the 44-year-old son of Jonathan Bible, Greek professor at Carson Newman College, who hopefully gave his son the middle name of Xenophon. Dana Xenophon Bible graduated from Carson Newman, did post-graduate work at Centre and North Carolina University, and then, in 1916, abruptly deserted an academic career to become football coach at Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College...