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When Mayor Curley ordered some revisions in "Flamingo Road" (on the ground that it was "an affront to the good people of Boston during the Lenten season"), there were plenty of good people of Boston who thought. His Honor had ulterior motives in discrediting the play. About the only thing noteworthy in the new Rowland Stebbins production is that Curley's critics are probably right: "Flamingo Road" is full of the sort of dirty Southern politics that some people say is paralleled in Boston...
...Flamingo Road" is mostly about a fat man named Titus Semple (Francis J. Felton) who happens to be sheriff of Petersburg, Florida, and has comfortably got himself into a position where he can run the politics of the town. He knows all about everybody in town, the way sheriffs do in small towns, and he's got the goods on everybody: Act I shows that...
...good-looking girl, with a hard voice, named Lane Ballou (Judith Parrish). She gets involved in Semple's machinations and winds up first in the country prison farm, then in the local house of ill repute. The girl's part is not well played, and accenting it makes "Flamingo Road" frequently border on standard melodrama...
They called him a Morning Glory, a bag o' bones, a worn-out nag. But Ol' Sarge Swenke, his trainer, refused to give up his faith in Alsab, last year's wonderhorse-even after he finished third in Florida's Flamingo and fifth in its Widener; even after he was licked twice within a week at Havre de Grace by commonplace Colchis; even after he was humbled by Valdina Orphan in the Derby Trial and by Shut Out in the great Derby itself, the race for which Swenke had pointed since the beginning of the year...
...gullible as the tip-sheet students-will put their two bucks on the smartest jockey in the field. That title belongs to Kentucky's Eddie Arcaro, leading stakes winner last year and winner of two of this year's richest races: the Widener and the Flamingo. This week Arcaro will ride either Devil Diver or Shut Out. If he boots home the winner, he will deserve to be ranked with Earl Sande and Negro Isaac Murphy, the only two jockeys ever to ride three Kentucky Derby winners. Arcaro won with Lawrin in 1938, with Whirlaway last year...