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...Edward Marsh, 80, scholar bachelor, longtime (1896-1937) British civil servant, who became known as "Whitehall's perfect private secretary" for his service to Churchill, Asquith, Joseph Chamberlain and Malcolm MacDonald in London. Falling in with London's literary crowd, "Eddie" Marsh established reputation as conversationalist, first-nighter art collector, translator of the odes of Horace and the fables of La Fontaine, autobiographer (A Number of People) and editor (1912-21) of five volumes of Georgian Poetry. For his service to the -rown and to letters, he was knighted in 1937 by George VI at a ceremony...
These nightly forfeits paid by New York theatergoers may partly explain why Broadway has only ten shows currently playing (see below), while London has 37. One expert who sees the point is Howard S. Cullman, inveterate first-nighter, chairman of the New York Port Authority, and one of Broadway's archangels. Last week Playgoer Cullman suggested that New York's City Council change some of its antiquated laws...
...many a first-nighter, puzzling over the biographical sketch in his Playbill, Jean Arthur may have seemed as ageless and mysterious as Peter Pan himself. The eight-line sketch offered little more than the fact that she was a famous screen star whose favorite film was Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Zealously shy and determined to cling to her privacy, Actress Arthur had ordered no more published. She also staunchly refused interviews, balked at a curtain speech, made it a point to flee from the theater (and stage-door crowds) without taking time to remove make-up or costume...
...positively crackers. They dragged the cast back for 14 curtain calls. One of the cast had to fire a stage pistol into the air to quiet them down, but they kept yipping until the company did another encore of the Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' number. "Why," first-nighters griped as they filed out, "can't England do these things?" England's most famed producer of musicals, 73-year-old Charles Cochran, excitedly admitted that he had never seen a better show - "and those well-fed chorus boys, what a pleasure . . . not a pansy amongst them...
...stage, it was Lily Pons wearing diamonds and emeralds, and singing in Valentina-designed costumes, one of which showed her navel. A detective stood in the wings, guarding the jewels. In the audience, a gem-barnacled first-nighter, Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, was watched over by a gun-toting bodyguard, but managed to lose a bracelet...