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...just before the last curtain by the towering, sinister figure of the real inspector general. A few hours before the opening performance, 325-lb. Actor Julian Winter, 39, fought off his wife and father, pushed himself out of an eighth-story window, plunged to his death (just missing Dancer Clifton Webb's chauffeur) because he was afraid he would not be a success as Gogol's ill-smelling hospital commissioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 5, 1931 | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

Musical?FINE & DANDY (Joe Cook), GIRL CRAZY (music by the brothers Gershwin), PRINCESS CHARMING (elaborate) THREE'S A CROWD (Libby Holman, Free Allen, Clifton Webb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Nov. 17, 1930 | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...summary: HARVARD 1934 TABOR Nichols, g. g., Eggleston Wemple, r.f.b. r.f.b., Mason Pollard, l.f.b. l.f.b., Reeve Streeter, r.h.b. r.h.b., Carlisle Robinson, Oppenheimer, c.h.b. c.h.b., Carrick Robbins, l.h.b. l.h.b., Webster Baxter, o.r.f. o.r.f., Read Gummere, Damon, i.r.f. i.r.f., Hemphill, Hood Martin, c.f. c.f., Ryder Masjoan, Nolan, i.l.f. i.l.f., Clifton Gilbert, o.l.f. o.l.f., Varney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1934 SOCCER TEAM PLAYS TIE GAME WITH TABOR SATURDAY | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Musical-EARL CARROLL VANITIES (dirty), FINE & DANDY (Joe Cook), GARRICK GAIETIES (youthful), GIRL CRAZY (Gershwin Music), PRINCESS CHARMING (Jeanne Aubert), THE SECOND LITTLE SHOW (pleasant), THREE'S A CROWD (Libby Holman, Clifton Webb, Fred Allen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Nov. 3, 1930 | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...Clifton Webb, staggering around a weird barroom full of grotesque, masked figures, some of whom sway in cadence on rockered bar stools, some of whom drink from gargantuan champagne glasses filled by two-headed attendants. Climax comes when Mr. Webb seizes and strips one of the patrons, rushes her offstage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 27, 1930 | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

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