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Howard Abell 1L, A. S. Armstrong, Jr. '32, P. H. Bates '33, J. H. Beard '34, J. T. Blackwell '34, B. B. Buckingham '33, H. M. Daft '34, R. H. Dana '34, J. T. Dennison '34, David Ennis '32, E. H. Fiske '34, Elwood Gaskill 1G, J. H. Gaul '32, W. H. Goodson, Jr. GM. A. L. Gordon...
Christopher Mahon is a daft and timid fellow who strikes his father in an altercation and fancies that he has killed him. Fleeing across the wild coast of County Mayo he tells the tale of his patricide in a public house and is immediately heralded for bravery, ogled by the village girls. With this impetus he becomes indeed a dashing fellow. Then his avenging father appears and the psychological fun begins. This famed, lyrical comedy by J. M. Synge is now revived by the Irish Theatre. The actors find it as difficult to speak distinctly as they...
...Singing Fool Jolson is Al Stone, a singing waiter at an inferior nightclub, who is daft over a revue-girl (Josephine Dunn). He writes a song, sings it to the revue-girl, is heard by one Marcus (Edward Martindel), a theatrical shogun. Shogun Marcus, impressed, wants Al to write more songs, gives Molly, the revue-girl, a break. Four years later Al & Molly are Broadway pets, but Al loses Molly, who becomes infatuated with John Perry (Reed Howes). There is a three-year-old child called Sonny Boy (David Lee), who escapes artificiality so completely that a hypersensitive cinemaddict feels...
This is not a new idea, this blurred boarder line between the dreamer and the daft. As thus discussed it is sometimes ingeniously interesting. Glen Hunter is the star. Patricia O'Hearn is startlingly good as the yammering wife. The title is from Genesis...
Fifty-seven years ago, the cathedral town of St. Andrews, Scotland, went daft over a youth of 19 whose serious face was just beginning to sprout the mutton-chop whiskers then in fashion. His name was Tom Morris Jr. With his long-necked clubs, lumpy balls and tarn o'shanter, he had gone over to Prestwick on the west coast andi for the third year running, whipped all the golfers in the land for the British Open Championship. They gave him the champion's belt, to keep permanently. The next year they did not bother to hold the tournament...