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...used in the first half, the offside shift was one of the Harvard's most consistent ground-gainers in the second, when Wally Trumbull called it four times. Lew Manly, the Tufts coach, was so impressed by this that he asked Henry Lamar at the football writers' luncheon yesterday to call a truce on the play, thereby disclosing the fact that the Jumbos will use some variation of it on Saturday. Mr. Lamar declined...
...Music Hall imported from his quiet Mount Vernon home minstrelsy's last great survivor, white-haired, 75-year-old Neil O'Brien, star balladist and endman in the days of the late Lew Dockstader and George Primrose. Affably, Oldtimer O'Brien sat through the show, went backstage afterward and made a speech to the assembled company. "Any show that had the Rockettes in it," remarked he, with dry tact, "would be a success...
...minstrel shows also contained the leading clowns of their day (Lew Dockstader's specialty, delivered in a dress suit the seat of whose pants dusted the floor, was a farcical satire entitled "Modern Mother Goose"). For a First Part grand finale the entire company would pass in review in what was known as the "Walk Around...
Sued for Divorce. Joseph Albert Fields, 48, sad-faced co-author of Broadway comedy-clicks (My Sister Eileen, Junior Miss), elder son of the late great Vaudevillian Lew (Weber &) Fields; by Germaine Sarlabous Fields, 40; after 14 years of marriage; in Manhattan...
...Little Chillun (by Hall Johnson; produced by Lew Cooper, Meyer Davis and George Jessel) played for a while on Broadway in 1933, has since then had healthy revivals elsewhere. A Negro melodrama of sex and religion (which are made 0 seem much the same thing), its story is inept, long-winded. What has obviously fetched audiences, even if it has not sufficiently rewarded them, is the well-blended Hall Johnson Choir's singing of well-known spirituals and Hall Johnson's own music...