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Topnotcher of this, as of previous Center shows, is Comic Freddie Trenkler, whose magnificent technique is directed entirely to madcap ends. One moment Trenkler- running on skates, but not skating-tears feverishly around the stage as if simultaneously fleeing a cop and pursuing a burglar. The next moment, he streaks straight toward the audience, stops dead on his heels at the very lip of the stage. If rivaled by such other ice-comedy classics as Frick & Frack and The Four Bruises, Trenkler's act outranks them in one respect-it is done solo...
Dancing to Ken Reeves' orchestra will begin at 2000. Main event of the evening, the show, in which such perennial favorities as Dr. LeCorbeiller, Mr. Lett, Sam Parker and many more of the Cruft Staff display their respective talents in a madcap review, will begin at 2100. Beer, coke and other refreshments will be served to guests...
Born. To Gene Tierney Cassini, 22, oriental-eyed cinemalulu; and Army Lieut. Oleg Cassini, 30, peacetime couturier, ex-husband of Patent Medicine Heiress Merry ("Madcap") Fahrney: a daughter; in Washington. Weight...
...revealed was the fifth marriage and divorce (eleven days later) of glittery, fire-haired Patent Medicine Heiress Merry ("Madcap") Fahrney. Briefly questioned in Manhattan was Husband (in name only) No. 5, a Swedish waiter who said he was 4-F (adenoids). Having lost her passport to the State Department, which disapproved of her Nazi friends, the heiress had paid the hard-up waiter $1,500 to make her a Swede, promptly got a Swedish passport, shortly skipped to South America with some half-million dollars of her fortune. Now living in a white-columned villa in Buenos Aires, she says...
Suddenly Emily's little world is tumbling about her ears: for Harry and her madcap sister Janice are in love. Emily's talent for self-deceit teases off the denouement to a point where New Year bells are ringing, a strike boils over, a greathearted young organizer is killed by his own men, and Emily learns not only to hear again but to realize that she has been trying to shackle an unwilling fiancé with her deafness...