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PRETTY WITTY NELL-Clifford Bax-Morrow...
...Nell Gwyn's 37 years were not all beer & skittles, but Biographer Bax is of the cheerful opinion that her short life was mostly merry. In a musical-comedy age she played one of the star parts, and the applause has not yet died away. Born in the slums of London, her father dead and her mother already a drunkard, Nell served drinks in a bawdy-house when she was still a moppet. She was only 10 when the Restoration brought her future lover, Charles II, back to England. Puritanism no longer darkened the doors of theatres...
...Goldsmith '33, Valero, Harrison Wood '36; Lucas, R. C. De Long '36; Thibault, J. D. Kernan '34; Lucinde, Lesilo Blake; Martino, Mary Loring; and Perrino, Lorvalue Warnor. The following will act in "Seranado"; Marquis do Gavennes, J. S. Plaut '33; DeFayollo, Harrison Wood '36; Mlle, de Pierreneuve, Mrs. Nell Phillips; and, a servant, Mary Cleveland...
...Commerce, Hunter Wright found one friend. Tillman Anderson, landowner, offered him the use of a small island in the Mississippi. Off to the island went hunters, dogs and the two lions, Nell & Bess...
...what has happened: Lake Shore University is backed by a Chicago gang as shameless as his own. The game becomes an armageddon in which machine guns rattle, bombs are thrown, punts shot down. Presently no one much is left except the appalled press agent and a pretty girl sportswriter (Nell O'Day). Rackety Rax was adapted from Joel Sayre's brief novel first published in the American Mercury last January. It uses a simpler technique than recent pictures in the same vein (Once in a Lifetime, The Phantom President) to attain hilarious absurdity. It simply allows the behavior...