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Star point-getter Doug Pirnie heads a long list of Freshmen on the injury list with a strained leg muscle which prevented him from all events except the discus last Saturday. Don Forte, Ray Guild, and Tom Goethals, all dependable dash men, are also on the shelf...
...Bolger, the Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz" and a famed tap dancer, Virginia O'Brien, co-starring with Bolger in "Keep of the Grass," opening in Boston April 29 may possibly appear with other members of the cast, while Ray Guild, winner of first prize in the Freshman Amateur Hour Wednesday night, and the Wessel brothers, who appeared on Major Bowes program and are now in Steubens in Boston, have a series of impersonations to amuse the crowd...
When the Theatre Guild produced Liliom (with Joseph Schildkraut and Eva Le Gallienne) 19 years ago, it found the right tone and tempo. Last week's production does not. Not only does Actor Meredith fail to catch Schildkraut's swagger, and the sets fail to measure up to Lee Simonson's stunning original ones, but the play moves slowly, puffingly, from scene to scene-as though Liliom took his round trip to Hell and back on a milk train...
...dippiness is a stage prop that accounts for most of Burns & Allen's reported $9,000-a-week radio salary. Off-mike, she is not always so dippy. As a guest on Information Please last summer, she stacked up favorably with the most select experts. On one Screen Guild show she played opposite James Cagney in a serious Irish playlet and did it well. One year U.S.C. psychology students, professing to find considerable sense behind Gracie's nonsense, voted her Hollywood's most intelligent actress...
...Column appeared in book form, won critical acclaim. Producers again started dickering; to one of them according to Broadwayfarer Leonard Lyons, Hemingway angrily replied: "Fifth Column, sixth draft, seventh producer, eighth refusal." Soon after, he agreed to let Hollywood Writer Benjamin Glazer rewrite the play. Last December the Theatre Guild announced that it would produce the play, with Franchot Tone as lead. Last week (with the financial assistance of Billy Rose) The Fifth Column opened at last on Broadway...