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Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, wheel-horses of Manhattan's Theatre Guild, Helen Hayes, pudgy emotional actress, Bert Lahr, loud-voiced comic, and Jimmy Durante, long-nosed, button-eyed master of ceremonies who makes up his own gags, will work for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Lunt & Fontanne's first picture will probably be Private Lives...
Flying High. Producer George (Scandals) White, like Producer Florenz (Follies) Ziegfeld, no longer limits himself to the episodic frivolities of the revue, but now shapes the same sort of entertainment to form musicomedies. The chief attraction of Flying High is a onetime vaudeville comedian named Bert Lahr whose eyes are close together and easily crossed, who emits apelike noises and resorts to other equally obvious antics. His most successful gag is a vulgar parody of a procedure common to all medical examinations. A great many people find him very funny. His function in the plot is to act as foil...
...into musical comedy is for connoisseurs the brightest and most engaging of this type of attraction though "Hold Everything", an early season offering of Aarons and Freedley is much more a hit by virtue of the much-played air, "Cream in Your Coffee" and the burlesque clowning of Bert Lahr...
...Lahr, Baden, Germany, was completed a " king of casks," holding 36,250 gallons?10,000 gallons more than the famous Heidelberg tub. According to mathematicians it would hold enough beer to supply an average German family for 1,000 years...
Shot-put: Harvard--Brickley, Hardwick; Cornell--Coffey, Lahr, Coffey...