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...Bolger can, still dance with the best of them, and a girl named Virginia O'Brien is surprisingly funny singing torch songs in a monotone, with a completely dead pan. Larry Adler does much better with a harmonica than anyone could possibly expect. And there's a bum (Emmet Kelly) who sits wordlessly on a park bench, removes a ham sandwich from a paper bag, eats it, then lazily brushes his teeth. He provides the one inspired moment of an otherwise uninspired show...
After a side foray at industrial design, a field he left after turning out a streamlined harmonica so big that a normal man couldn't get his mouth around it, Nat Karson headed straight for Broadway. Now it keeps him as busy as brokers ever did. In the past five years he has done sets for 35 Broadway productions. Near tops in Broadway stage painting last season was Nat Karson's rapid-fire blend of Negro jazz and Japanese formalism in the sets of the Hot Mikado. His latest, Let's Go, opened last week...
...scorned & rejected. He has filled a San Francisco waterfront dive with prostitutes, sailors, cops, bums, drunks, slot-machine addicts, hoofers, young men in love, old men in rags. Some of these people are as touching as his battered Arab who plays an ancient, mournful wail upon a harmonica. Some are as uproariously funny as his prodigious, W. C. Fieldsy liar (Len Doyle) who bursts on the stage with: "I don't suppose you ever fell in love with a midget weighing 39 pounds?" All are forlorn. But by means of a wealthy drunk (Eddie Dowling) with a generous purse Saroyan...
...Foster Fitz-Simons and Eusemble Warrene Bulkeley Jacqueline Magrath June MacLaren Mary Morse *"Little Women" (Theme and Variations) Tchaikovsky "City Faun" (Satirical Dance Morton Gould *Magnificat (Air for the G String) Bach "Caribbee" Milhaud *"Archangel" (Gymnopedio I) Satle "Frail Woman" (Excerpts from "Pour les Enfants") Tansman "Chromo: American Dance" (Harmonica Player from Alley Tunes) Guion *Polonaise Militaire Chopin *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Score Harvard Square...
...Pretty brunette" Bernice Bryers will do the vocals for the band, and entertainment during the intermissions will be provided by George Kuhn '42 with his harmonica. Preceding the dance, there will be a formal dinner in the House Dining Hall, to which members of the House and their guests are invited. Inter-House dining slips will be honored...