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...remains, as always, a very funny show, a very clever show, and well worth your time and money. Boris Karloff does his usual excellent job of appearing menacing and bewildered by turns, and Jean Adair and Ruth McDevitt are hilariously convincing as Karloff's two aged rivals...
About the only major flaw in the show is Miss McDevitt's performance, which, while good by ordinary standards, fails at times to measure up to the truly stratospheric heights attained by the late Laura Hope Crews, who had the role in last year's production...
HARVARD '44 DARTMOUTH '44 Aldrich or Teal, l.e. r.e., Revenaugh Malloti, l.t. r.t., Peacock DoCoster, l.g. r.g., Marion Gleason, c. c,m McCloskey Lawrence, r.g. l.g. Templeton Parson, r.t. l.t., Clark Cummings, r.e. l.e., McDevitt Geethals, q.b. q.b., Hood Johnson, l.h.b. r.h.b., Frost O'Donnell, r.h.b. i.h.b., Slusser And'rs'n or Cowen, f.b. f.b., McLaughry...
...liquidate its record $3,332,000 deficit. Art lovers wanted the unveiling put off till spring, when the plaza would look more verdant and hopeful. Barrel-chested Mayor Bernard Francis Dickmann last week gathered himself together and chose a December date. Director of Streets and Sewers Frank J. McDevitt objected to the whole thing, on the ground that motorists would look at the nudes instead of watching where they were going. But St. Louis art lovers reflected proudly that, whenever the figures are unveiled, a Carl Milles fountain will be well worth a few traffic accidents...
...murder-for-insurance syndicate alleged to have done away with four victims of arsenic poisoning on whose lives they had insurance (TIME, Feb. 13). After hearing the verdict, Herman Petrillo tried to slug the jury's forewoman, was dragged cursing from the courtroom. Judge Harry S. McDevitt ordered the arrest of Paul Petrillo (cousin) and the widow of a poisonee (two other widows were already in custody), and investigators began exhuming 70 bodies in graveyards of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York. Object: to prove that Petrillo during the past ten years had run an arsenic epidemic to collect upwards...