Word: mummer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since this scheme merely involves hoodwinking Alice Brady it turns out to be not too difficult. Comics Auer and Savo dabble in the occult. House impersonates an English noblewoman, in his spare moments trains Fall Guy Lahr for a wrestling bout. Actress Brady is properly taken in. Best shots: Mummer Savo bestowing an imaginary wedding present with all the airy panoply of pantomime; Swami Auer winning Wrestler Lahr's bout for him with levitation's artful aid; Barytone Lahr's "Song of the Woodman" ("What do we chop when we chop a tre-e-e? Buckets...
...last week in the ribbing 59-year-old George M. Cohan gave 55-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Actor Cohan, prime Down East favorite, was appearing in the tryout run of the George S. Kaufman-Moss Hart satire, I'd Rather Be Right, due on Broadway next month. Mummer Cohan wore a pince-nez, assumed a Groton inflection in opening his fireside chats. Musing on budget-balancing and third terms, he sang a song called Off The Record, confiding "I'm very fond of Eleanor, but I never read her column,'' vouchsafing further, with intervals...
...gives the production a certain air of dignity. Admirers of the charming elder Kerr believe that if everybody grew up to be a septuagenarian like him, the world would be a better place. Included in the cast is Basil Rathbone (The Captive, The Command to Love), a handsome ascetic mummer. Along with Mr. Kerr, Actor Rathbone appeared in The Czarina and in the cinema Lady of Scandal. Also in the play, also fresh from Hollywood, is Montagu Love...
...There is charming, blonde Lois Moran, recently of the audible cinema. Her legitimate stage technique is somewhat adolescent, but she is satisfying. There is Geoffrey Kerr, who not long ago wrote and acted in London Calling and is author of the Vanity Fair telegram-stories. He is an expert mummer. Also in the cast is Audray Dale (One, Two, Three!), talented, dark, svelte...
...along through interminable big chorus numbers, precious little ballads, noisy musical protestations of love for old Magnesia. Best that can be said for the production is that spectators get a chance to see Norma Terris (Show Boat) with her hair down. As Good As New. Being an exceptionally good mummer, Otto Kruger is always capable of a first-rate performance no matter how weak the show is-and he has performed in some frail attractions (Nobody's Money, Will Shakespeare, The Long Road). As Tom Banning, the philandering plutocrat in As Good As New, Mr. Kruger again demonstrates that...