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...staff, can be an excellent shot in the arm for Ivy League football. There has been an increasing tendency toward a stuffy smugness in the non-existent league, a tendency to shout down its own rain barrel persistently in an attempt to justify sloppy half-hearted football with a lace collar of gothic-tower dignity. There is the gentlemanly nonsense which leads a Harvard man to beaming play patty-cake over the fact that although the season was one big set-back, "after all, we did beat Yale." The Dartmouth
...costumes ? from a trig purple suit to a sequined man-killer? that had Designer Hattie Carnegie's telephone ringing constantly on the morning after the opening. Once, in changing costumes, Gertie does the next thing to a striptease' exposing herself in a cobwebby black lace slip. Naturally in Lady in the Dark she has no understudy. The show business knows no one who could fill the bill...
...fantastic farce Arsenic and Old Lace (TIME, Jan. 20) makes murder a paralyzingly funny subject. Mr. and Mrs. North makes it light, amiable, just a little scary...
Playwright Joseph Kesselring, 39, got the idea for Arsenic and Old Lace by considering what would be the most unlikely thing his gentle grandmother might do. Born and raised in Manhattan, as a boy he sang at the Church of the Epiphany, went to Stuyvesant High School, taught at the Bethel Mennonite College in North Newton, Kans. He has acted on the road and in Chicago, has written pulp stories, vaudeville sketches, two Broadway flops. His press agent Richard Maney swears that Mr. Kesselring has recently lived on "herbs, wild berries and pemmican...
...beautiful picture of Luchow's on a Sunday evening. (One of the four illustrations in color is Luchow's on a Sunday evening.) In the jungle, too, in a less-than-village, he found Indians praying around a little child in a chair, dressed in white lace and embroidery, her hair decorated with tinsel and with silver wire. She had been dead several days. There were paper wings attached to the dress. The major-domo explained: "The child, who is now an angel up in heaven, is ... carried about in processions from house to house . . . until...