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...Russian ballet. Ballet dancers' Broadway reputation for arrogance, jealousy and venery offers, like a clown's buttocks, a large and ludicrous target for whacking. Three modern masters of whacking, George Abbott (who staged this season's side-splitting Boy Meets Girl) and Rodgers & Hart (who supplied Jumbo's score) have done so with authority. The finale of On Your Toes' Act I, in which disaster strolls implacably through a conventional ballet, will make it impossible for many people ever again to take the serious Dance seriously. Thereupon, Messrs. Abbott, Rodgers & Hart, uncannily abetted by famed...
Front Page, went hand in hand to Hollywood, and now run their own producing company on Long Island. They wrote the book for Jumbo, current Manhattan hit. Author Hecht lives with his second wife at Nyack, near Manhattan...
...strong Tufts Jumbo quintet will meet the Jayvees in the preliminary at 6.45 o'clock. The Jumbos are a group of former college stars who are attending Tufts Dental School. As in past years, the Jumbos have a strong, experienced team, and are favored over the weak Jayvees...
Most intelligent laymen regard the jargon of lawyers as an obvious trade trick, a professional pig-Latin calculated to obscure otherwise simple matters and impress clients with the indispensability of their services. Fortunately, most of their pompous verbal mumbo-jumbo is harmless tautology. But at least one legal usage- "and/or"-is dangerous nonsense...
First Lady. Jane Cowl as a Washington woman-behind-the-throne, with brisk dialog by George S. Kaufman & Katharine Dayton. Jumbo. Paul Whiteman, Jimmy Durante, donkeys, deer and "dream women" in Billy Rose's new Hippodrome show. The Taming of the Shrew. Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne add new dimensions to a pleasant comedy by William Shakespeare. Winterset. Maxwrell Anderson's verse tragedy of a city's lower depths...