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Outstanding in a cast which displays no notable weaknesses are Jerry Ross and Betty Kean. Ross' dancing has all the vigor and strength of Gene Kelly and should take him into the big time within a year or two. Miss Kean's rendition of the "South America Take It Away" routine manages the difficult feat of being subdued, tasteful and sensational all at one time...
...side of the Thames was renamed the Royal Victoria when Victoria became heiress presumptive to the throne. A century ago it was a scene of splendor, with linkmen lighting theatergoers - including the young Victoria and her mother - across the undrained Lambeth marshes, where footpads lurked. There played the great Kean and the great Macready, while society folk goggled at the heavy curtain of looking glass that later had to be ripped out because its weight was pulling down the roof. Bits of the curtain served as dressing room mirrors till the blitz...
...Southern American Negro" was Frederick Ira Aldridge, the date 1826. Among his Desdemonas: Ellen Tree, whose husband, famed Charles Kean, played Iago. In Europe's capital Actor Aldridge also played other Shalespearean roles (e.g., Lear, Shylock, Macbeth.) He married a Swedish baroness (by whom he had three children), died as he was about to return to America to set the record that had to wait 76 years for Paul Robeson...
Died. Hamilton Fish Kean, 79, wealthy ex-Senator from New Jersey (1929-35), banker, utilitycoon; in Manhattan. He held his first and only public office when he became Senator...
Representative Robert Kean '15, (R., N. J.) sent a letter yesterday to Admiral Willson of the Naval Academy protesting the action recently taken against Negroes...