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Keep Off the Grass (music & lyrics by James McHugh & Al Dubin; produced by the Shuberts) is the first summer musical to hit Broadway. It might as well be any hot-weather revue of the past 20 years, with too few good tunes and too many bad sketches; but it has Jimmy Durante's desperate clowning. Ray Bolger's skipping feet, some pretty girls, some entertaining specialty numbers...
...hanging, Merle Oberon nearer death from angina pectoris. Cinemactress Oberon spends much of her allotted time philosophizing about eternity. When not listening, George Brent spends his time trying to make a getaway with the help of Binnie Barnes. Pat O'Brien (a detective) makes tough faces, Frank McHugh makes funny faces. In a minor part (bright, solicitous Bonnie), Geraldine Fitzgerald looks very pretty, acts very well...
...yard medley relay: Won by Harvard (R. Harris, A. Waldron, T. Shrewsbury); second, Boston (McHugh, Leseur, Dormandy). Time...
...Bosworth may not see much action in the backstroke tonight, thus giving McHugh and Tirrell of the Y. M. C. A. a chance in the dorsal event. Breastroker Hayward has only been beaten once this year, and his Harvard opposition will come from among Al Waldron, Max Kraus, Roger Wilcox, and Bob White...
...passing from Broadway to Hollywood, On Your Toes has suffered a see change. Even Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, a high point of the original version, has no more bang than the pop-pistol percussion with which the orchestra burlesques its pantomime killings. Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Leonid Kinskey fling flat gags around with as much nervous energy as if they were hand grenades, but they never go off. Typical duds: "We are waiting for Levsky"; "Aha! mutiny on the ballet...