Word: hartman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Dick Waite's Lions have won only two of their nine engagements and the Crimson is well fortified at the weights in which Columbia is strong. Bob Hartman, at 137, is unbeaten and will meet Icko Iben. Gene Manfrini, a totally blind boy who wrestles at 157 and has been defeated only once this season, comes up against Al Sawyer...
Ethel Morman's singing and Irving Berlin's music are the saving graces of Call Mc Madam (Imperial, 45th), a disappointing show considering the amount of talent involved. The grace and Paul Hartman revue, Tickets, Please! (Mark Hellinger, B'way and 53rd) is a first-class, consistently funny musical revne...
From having made a very good joke of ballroom dancing, Grace and Paul Hartman have learned to make an even better joke of themselves. They can still execute demented fandangos. In one scene, she is a madly determined Carmen to his befuddled Don José. They are most consistently amusing as a trademarked stage couple, she babbling, he blundering, she all fizz, he all curdle. Beyond that, there is Grace's invincible likeableness...
...Hartmans, of course, are capable of surmounting even poor material. Grace, as a garrulous feather-brained nincompoop, is always amusing. Paul Hartman says very little, but he does carry off honors for being the most energetic mugger, as well as the most hilariously ungraceful entertainer on Broadway. When the two get together to parody the modern dance ("Symbol of Fire") the result is most definitely worth seeing...
...shepherd and the pointer were beautiful in long-legged motion; Trick, skimming nonchalantly through his paces, was a smooth and jaunty little Scotty. Judge Hartman didn't take long to decide. He picked up the blue ribbon and pointed to Trick. Said Hartman: "Not only one of the greatest dogs I have ever judged, but one of the greatest I have ever seen...