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Died. Dr. John Dill Robertson, 60, for seven years Chicago's health commissioner under Mayor William Hale Thompson and later his bitter foe in the 1927 mayoralty election; of angina pectoris; at Fontana...
...find it quite easy to maintain a parity of nudity. The proceedings are of the hot weather variety which used to occur on the old Winter Garden stage before the lean years fell on the spangle manufacturers. Among the show's subtler assets are a waltz by Moss & Fontana, a bedroom scene in which Gertrude Lawrence creates considerable foolishment, and the spinning, leaping rhythms of Anton Dolin, a swarthy Englishman who once led the Diaghiliev Rus-sian ballet. Jimmy McHugh has written pleasant songs ("On the Sunny Side of the Street," "Exactly Like You") which are plugged by Harry...
Last week New York police, looking to quiz him for practicing medicine without a license, learned that he was beyond their reach at Fontana, Cal. He had written a letter from general delivery, Los Angeles : "I have lost my position. I have lost all my money. I do not expect to return to New York for the rest of my life. . . . My only consolation is that this whole situation arose through circumstances entirely beyond my control." However, at Fontana last week the second Mrs. Empringham announced that he was on his way to Manhattan barely to face any accusations, medical...
...This Year of Grace" is a plain spectacle, not to be compared to the Broadway durbars of Mr. White and Mr. Carroll, and plumes and rosettes are absent from what Mr. Woollcott used to term the decor. Except for the miraculous waltzing of Mr. George Fontana and Miss Marjorie Moss, it is, in the matter if beauty, no great shakes, as Mr. St. John Ervine would call it. Mr. Walkley once said of Pavlowa that she was not like flame and wind, but that flame and wind were like her. I wish I had time to think of something equally...
Unhappily, Miles. Losch and Matthews are not in Manhattan; their subtle postures and cream-smooth notes are sadly needed. Of course, Marjorie Moss and Georges Fontana float through their waltz scene to threaten voidance of Pavlowa's lifelong lease on "incomparable." Madeline Gibson's demure loveliness forestalls unsympathetic accusations of vocal timidity. But with these exceptions there is no competent voice, no dexterous dancing in the entire revue...