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...Lampy's guests at its annual spring dance tonight--although they don't know it yet--will be the young lady who immortalized herself yesterday by referring to Harvard's Funnymen as "dim-witted juveniles with eye-sight corresponding to the length of their hair...
Boys and Girls Together (Music by Sammy Fain, lyrics by Jack Yellen & Irving Kahal; produced by Ed Wynn). The late great Florenz Ziegfeld was not overly popular with comics. He was firm in the belief that funnymen should remain on the stage only long enough to give his girls a chance to change their clothes. In Boys and Girls Together, Ed Wynn reverses the master's dictum. From the moment he steps out of an old trunk in Act I to announce that all the actors come from show boats and hence his "cast was bred upon the waters...
...Russell Zwoncus Jr. '41, ace smoochball artist of the Funnymen, declared for publication last night that "because the CRIMSON isn't going to publish a Saturday issue, I might as well predict right now that they'll shaft us to the tune of a cool 23 to 2." The tousle-haired, troll-visaged athlete further asserted, "Here's Zwoncus who will drain every resource for the 'Poon...
...speed to burn, but no control," Coulter announced. While the journalists have been holding regular and rigorous practice sessions for several weeks, the funnymen have only been batting it about at odd moments. It was the effect of their first serious workout yesterday that sent the jesters to the sick...
Arriving in Manhattan for the opening of Lillian Russell, new movie in which they have a reminiscent sequence, Oldtime Funnymen Joe ("Mike") Weber, 72, and Lew ("Meyer") Fields, 73, promptly went into their 63-year-old act at Grand Central Terminal: Meyer cuffed Mike, shook him like an apple tree. When they paused for breath, Weber growled: "All people ever wanted to see us for is to watch Lew knock the hell out of me." Mourned