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...position of goalie there is at present a three cornered battle raging. Abbot Fenn, who received his baptism under fire last year in the Yale series when Vint Freedley was injured, seems to be the leading competitor, but Goody Harding, who captained the 1943 six, and Bob Kayser, who has seen considerable Jayvee experience, will probably see action in the Northeastern game...
Cabin in the Sky (book by Lynn Root, lyrics by John Latouche, music by Vernon Duke, produced by Albert Lewis & Vinton Freedley). Something of the comic charm of The Green Pastures pervades this new musical fable conceived by whites for an all-Negro cast. In it the robustly endearing Ethel Waters returns to Broadway. As the wife of an errant colored gentleman who has spent more than spare time with a lovely hussy, she prays for him, on his deathbed, gains for him a six-month reprieve from death while the forces of good & evil wrestle, in plain view...
Producer Vinton Freedley caught her at the Paramount, introduced her to George Gershwin, for whom she sang his newly composed I Got Rhythm. She was promptly signed for Girl Crazy, in which she was an overnight smash. Hearing that she had never had a singing lesson, Gershwin begged her never to take one. She never has. She says: "I breathe when I want to"-which is usually at the precise moment when she has turned a syncopated phrase with sinuous authority. Gershwin was so delighted with her talent that during the run of Girl Crazy he often appeared...
...Besides Freedley, the following Seniors are members of the Class Day Committee, which will supervise the activities: Blair Clark, William C. Coleman, Jr., James D. Lightbody, Jr. Charles D. Lutz, Jr., Torbert H. Macdonald and Samuel W. White...
...assist at graduation activities, E. Langdon Burwell '41, of Eliot House, Donald I. Lowry '41, of Winthrop House, and Philip Thayer '41, of Winthrop House, were appointed head Junior Ushers by the Class Day Committee yesterday, Vinton Freedley, Jr. '40, chairman of the Committee announced...