Word: hart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your Toes-the Rodgers-Hart-Abbott musical ribbing of the Russian Ballet...
...committee will consist of President Conant, Merle Fainsod, instructor in Government, Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, Richard V. Gilbert '23, instructor in Economics, Henry M. Hart, Jr. '26, assistant professor of Law, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, Edwin Mims, Jr., instructor in Government, Sumner H. Slichter, professor of Business Economics, Alan R. Sweezey '29, instructor of Economics, and John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy...
...belief that they are horses and that he has made a fortune betting on them-Oiwin gets drunk. In the bar of the Lavillere Hotel he gives a casual race-tip to three starving horse-players-Charlie (Allen Jenkins), Patsy (Sam Levene) and Frankie (Teddy Hart). He is being sick offstage during those moments when the selections in his small black book, heavily backed by his new friends, come romping home. What happens after his return from the men's room is a four-cornered chase. Oiwin is trying to write 67 Mother's Day greeting-card orders...
Skillfully directed by Mervyn LeRoy, adorned with two members of the original stage cast (Teddy Hart and Sam Levene), Three Men On A Horse is more than just a very funny picture. It has the authentic lilt and shuffle of that Broadway half-world whose deflated, hard-packed mirth had had no equal interpretation since the late Ring Lardner. Best scenes : the Lavillere staff, including the bartender, the bellhop and the maid, working on Oiwin's greeting-card orders; Patsy's girl Mabel (Joan Blondell) keeping Oiwin from going; home by showing him the specialty...
Stage Door (by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber; Sam H. Harris, producer). Having thoroughly extolled the pride and excitement of theatrical life when he and Edna Ferber wrote The Royal Family (1927), having thoroughly deflated the parvenu pretense of Hollywood when he and Moss Hart wrote Once in a Lifetime (1930), George Kaufman, collaborating with Miss Ferber again, is compelled to cover some fairly old ground in a fairly old way when he again fights the battle of the drama v. the cinema in Stage Door...