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Actors are the whole show, and shrewd Producer-Director Fielder Cook simply collects a boodle of famous and not-so-famous faces in a smoke-filled room, leaving the rest to hot hands and ham instincts. In a plot that tingles with incentives, "the five richest men in the territory" converge on a poky frontier town for their annual poker classic. An Indian massacre would probably cause less excitement, certainly less fanaticism. To get there on time, Mortician Charles Bickford all but burns the wheels off his best hearse. Landowner Jason Robards, biting into every line like a hungry barracuda...
Columbia is far from being an Army, but the Lions are still a respectable ball club. The Lions' leading hitter is shortstop Steve Richman, who owned an incredible .475 batting average after last weekend's victories over Penn and Princeton. Richman, however, is a ham-handed fielder, as are the other Lions. In their first ten games this year, they committed 37 errors. The two recent wins given the club a 2-3 record in the EIBL, the same an Harvard...
Stolber himself makes no bones about being an upstaging ham, and sometimes he's funny at it too. But to really like him you've got to like the Art Carney type of comic (on television they're legion). Needless to say, not everybody will. Skolnik is somewhat more restrained, and when he has anything to do he does it wonderfully...
Sophomore Bernie Adelsberg, at number two for the Crimson, has been playing on and off all year. But he will have to be on to beat Ham Magill, a steady player who probably has the best ground strokers in the Ivy League. Magill, a skinny player with a devastating backhand, was playing number one for Princeton this Spring until last week...
...Iolanthe, Janet Walker acquits herself admirably; she sings beautifully and acts well. Jean' Taynton as the Fairy Queen is something of a ham, but a good ham is hard to come by, so who cares? Thomas Siegal would steal the show as Private Willis except that Lithgow has previously stolen it himself...