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Another event in London's theatrical week was the second birthday of Arsenic and Old Lace, which Producer Firth Shephard celebrated by repeating his first-night trick: at the final curtain, a slew of London's topnotch comedians (Jack Buchanan, Will Hay, et al.) file onstage to impersonate the "corpses" who had been elderberried in the cellar...
...result of trials held last night, the Debate Council announces the election of Richard Firth '48, Robert Gabler '46, Richard Gardner '48, and Ray Goldberg...
...remember his being introduced by J. P. ("The Boss") Firth, a giant of a marvelous man who was the headmaster. The Boss recalled that many times he had flogged Frey-berg V.C. The hero of the Dardanelles, standing there among the begowned pedagogues, smiled wryly and rubbed the seat of his pants...
Other U.S. hits include Arsenic and Old Lace, Junior Miss, My Sister Eileen, Panama Hattie. Producer Firth Shephard has such a yen for putting on U.S. plays that a current revue gag runs: "What's Firth Shephard looking so unhappy about ?"-"Oh, someone's given him an English play to read...
Word went round Edinburgh like fire: the ships with exchanged prisoners would discharge in the Firth of Forth next day. Edinburgh lined up six deep along the Leith waterfront. Offshore, in the rare sun of a late October morning, the Empress of Russia and the Drottningholm (the men called her the Trotting Home) began transferring their racked and crippled cargoes to tenders...