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...purpose of the organization is to present premieres of worthy dramas, especially those by undergraduates, or revivals of great works. The latest undergraduate show was "Too Late to Laugh" by Vinton Freedley, Jr. '14, which was produced...
Jackpot (book by Guy Bolton, Sidney Sheldon & Ben Roberts; music & lyrics by Vernon Duke & Howard Dietz; produced by Vinton Freedley) is a large-scale musical that ran to telephone figures and adds up to zero. Considering how many smart people are involved in it, Jackpot seems almost like a conspiracy of dullness...
Among those who have "stirred the Pudding" are Robert Benchley and Vinton Freedley, as well as countless notables who have made their names in fields other than the show business. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and the late George Baker were grease-paint at 12 Holyoke Street. J. P. Morgan was a show manager, and the walls are lined with posters and mementoes telling the story of other plays and personalities...
Written for a production at Catholic University, "Count Me In" should have stayed there. On Broadway it falls flat and can hardly bear comparison with a Freedley, Wiman or Abbott musical. At any moment you expect someone to come out with a crack about the Dean of Women's red woolies, but you have to be satisfied with the humor of a Back Bay sitting room. Compensating for the poor dialogue is some top-notch dancing (Hal Leroy's tapping is the best thing in the show), an original story and a couple of good performances...
...Eddie Dowling and a $645,000 budget. Buzzing around the Caribbean bases last week was an Army planeload of Camp Shows talent: Funnymen Laurel & Hardy, Singer Jane Pickens, Actor John Garfield, Dancers Mitzi Mayfair and Ray Bolger. Producer Dowling expects to send Broadway hits, cast by George Abbott, Vinton Freedley, other Broadway producers. Most ambitious Camp Shows idea: sending a stock company to Iceland for an eight-to ten-week stay...