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Actress Merman plays Annie Oakley, the sharpshooting whiz of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show-and the gal whose name became a synonym (because they are punched with holes) for complimentary theater tickets. An illiterate Ohio lass performing miracles with a squirrel rifle, she is snapped up by Buffalo Bill, falls in love with the male sharpshooter of the troupe (Ray Middleton). Unfortunately for his affections, she shoots better than he does. But in good time Cupid's bow wins out over Annie...
...factors combined to add several strokes to the scores. One was the weather, which turned the fairways into begs, the other was the fact that Wachusett is 500 yards longer than Oakley, where the eight previous contests were held. For this second reason, it is unfair to compare Mulcahy's score to the previous winning scores...
Chico, whom Bob Benchley called the Annie Oakley of the piano, obliges on that instrument as pleasantly as ever. Harpo, who once was dangerously close to artiness, still has the best of his old wildness, plus new restraint, sadness and subtlety. He is used more centrally than before, and this is on the whole his finest performance. Groucho still carries the weight of the show and the woes of the world somewhere in the kidney region and walks, accordingly, with the famous sway-backed stoop. He still fires off his lines in the voice of a baying hound, with such...
...Edmund Oakley Mills...
...Gordon P. Reed '48, originators of the new organization, have announced that the course is only 12 minutes from Harvard Square by subway. If present plans are completed, the group will play nine holes a day as often as the members are able to make the trip to Oakley...