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Leave It to Me! (book by Bella & Samuel Spewack; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Vinton Freedley) is big-name, big-scale, big-town musicomedy: the season's first show to fetch $6.60 on opening night. It tells of simple-souled Alonzo P. Goodhue (Victor Moore), snatched from happy hours of horseshoe-pitching in Topeka, Kans. to be ambassador to Soviet Russia. His one desire is to get fired. He kicks the Nazi ambassador in the belly and the world cheers. He takes a potshot at a stranger who turns out to be a dangerous counter-revolutionary assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

There is plenty of mad, mad fun in Max Liebman and Allen Boretz's new comedy "The Flying Ginzburgs" which Vinton Freedley brought to the Plymouth Thursday night, but unfortunately it isn't always clear just what all the shooting is about. Borrowing heavily from "Three Men on a Horse," "You Can't Take It With You," and "Room Service," this moderately amusing screwball farce is hampered by artificial situations, a surfeit of gags, and some uncomfortable let-downs in the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

After this touchdown, Leverett took command of the contest. Finally in the fourth quarter, on fourth down, Vint Freedley completed a pass to Red Davis from the Bunny 20, and Davis scooted 65 yards for a touchdown behind Bob Ritter's blocking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans, Deacons Eke Out Slim Wins, Tie for First at House Football Finish | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

Admitting that they were mostly the "atmosphere" in Vinton Freedley's current stage hit "Leave it to Me," the two girls said that they were trying to absorb some of the Harvard "atmosphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chorines Visiting in Cambridge Agree Hitch-Hiking is Better in New Haven | 11/1/1938 | See Source »

...first Leverett touchdown came on a 15 yard pass from Vint Freedley to Red Davis, who then ran 65 yards for the score. The second Rabbit touchdown came after Ollie Foote had intercepted one of Ed Whitman's heaves Freedley tossed a flat pass to Ed Dobbyn who scored standing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons and Rabbits Triumph | 10/26/1938 | See Source »

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