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Three days later, stunting for more points, he too came a cropper. In a spectacular spinning dive, his left wing snapped off. He tossed back the cowl covers, tried to wriggle out of the cockpit. Centrifugal motion held him fast. Finally leaning far out over the nose, he grasped a metal indicator, wrenched himself free, parachuted into a birch tree...
...Merchant of Yonkers is Manhattan in the '80s. but old as the European theatre is the plot of the sweated apprentices who sneak off for a holiday, of their miserly old master (Percy Waram) on the hunt for a wife, and of the obliging Mrs. Fixit (Jane Cowl) who fixes things to suit herself. The slapstick is the same that, 200 years ago. drew tears of laughter from simple London cits and beefy German burghers: mistaken identity, boys dressed up as girls, people hiding under tables, lurking in clothes presses, listening behind screens, popping out of trap doors...
Whimsy, wit, charm, and pace has Max Reinhardt's production of Thornton Wilder's new farce, "The Merchant of Yonkers," which opened last night with Jane Cowl in the leading role. And yet this sometimes touching story of the petty desires of mankind for excitement and fun and just a little money, is not really so different from the poignant "Our Town" in its sympathetic treatment of the average mortal, a treatment almost Dickensonian in quality which has made Mr. Wilder one of the foremost dramatists of our-time...
...Levi, the artful Miss Cowl once more displays her superb timing and mastery of comedy technique. It is only to be hoped that sometime, somewhere, she will be made to play a whole scene with her hands in her pockets. But Miss Cowl is not the whole show by any means. Percy Waram is grand as the stingy and irascible Vanergelder, known to his subordinates as the "wolf trap". Tom Ewell, in the role of Cornelius Hackl who is getting away from it all for the first time in his life at the age of 33, is corking. June Walker...
Also scheduled for this summer are some 50 famed legitimate stage stars, including Helen Hayes. Walter Hampden. Willie and Eugene Howard, Jane Cowl, Richard Bennett, Pauline Lord, Fred Stone, Eugenie Leontovich, Ethel Barrymore, and such oddities as Author Sinclair Lewis in his own It Can't Happen Here (Cohasset, Mass.); Accordionist Phil Baker in Idiot's Delight (Dennis, Mass...