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...Contrary to popular belief, Harvard suffices are neither better nor worse than the average New York audience," opined Bert Lahr, star of Cole Perrier's new show "DuBarry Was a Lady," in his dressing room at the Shubert Theatre last night. "All shows these days are written for patrons of the Great White Way, and Harvard boys have their pseudo-sophistication...
...Lahr, in contrast to most comedians, finds that the movies handicap him in no way. To replace the absence of personal contact with an audience, each scene is shot several times. Each take requires a different interpretation by the comedian, and the best of these is selected for release by the cutter. Although the hours are long and the work hard, Lahr has enjoyed his work in motion pictures--especially the part of the cowardly lion in the "Wizard...
There's a mighty favorable rate of exchange at the Shubert this week, where "DuBarry Was a Lady" is the attraction. You put down your money and you get a Cole Porter revue, costumed, syncopated, gagged, and sexed up to the hilt. Ethel Merman and Bert Lahr perform in their best manner, with everything from the fake marble walls of a night-club men's room to the tufted satin of Louis XV's court as settings. Their special brand of humor seems even funnier when its spice is set off against the elegance of the French court...
...gentlemen, those pictures you've seen don't lie. She provides the visual stimulus, while Ethel Merman tickles the erotic funnybone. Ethel could put over a song to a deaf mute and teach the facts of life to a Trappist monk by gestures alone. And also, there's Bert Lahr, who seems to have brought the Lahr leer to a new stage of perfection, for not a scene is safe from his clowning...
Marriage annulled. Irving Lahrheim (Bert Lahr), adenoidal funnyman; and Mercedes Delpino Lahrheim, his former vaudeville partner; after ten years; in White Plains, N. Y. Three doctors testified that Mrs. Lahrheim had been insane for five years...