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Jerry Kilty, remembered for his Falstaff of last year, is back once again with a "tolerable deal of sack" by his side, and, of course, the combination is infallibly amusing. He plays Stephano, and is very ably matched by the Trinculo of David Andrews.' Together, the two romp and stomp about the stage, like two mad clowns--or is it two children inebriated only with springtime--and when joined with Caliban, it's a real howl...
Contrary to an article in Life magazine last spring, the Rugby Club will have considerably more to do than romp around at beach parties. The schedule for the Bermuda Week does list a few parties on the sands, but during the week Callahan's players will meet Princeton, Yale, and experienced squads from the Royal Navy, the Bermuda AA, and the British Army...
...Allen. Last week, filling in for vacationing Columnist John Crosby of the N.Y. Herald Tribune, Allen struck some ambiguous blows in radio's defense, managing at the same time to get a few elbow-jabs and nose-rubs into radio's face. Sample Allen opinions of the "romp, revel and enlightening fare" that packs the average radio...
...Before." According to Messrs. Styne & Cahn, this is how the title to their first hit was born. Since then most of their major decisions, and the titles of their best songs, have come like that. Like their brothers on Tin Pan Alley, Styne & Cahn believe that a tune either "romps," "walks," "bounces," or you put it away. Says Jule: "You can't fight it; either it comes easy or you don't play with it." Last week the latest Styne & Cahn hit, It's Magic, was the nation's No. 2 best seller in the jukeboxes...
...creator of synthetic surnames since Charles Dickens). There were Lady Circumference and her numskull son, little Lord Tangent; Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde (later Lady Margot Metroland) and her son, Peter Pastmaster; Sir Alastair Digby-Vaine-Trumpington and Viola Chasm. This glittering, blandly selfish, pretentiously stupid upper-class riffraff was to romp through most of Waugh's later books, sharing their futile power for pointless and appalling mischief with such later creations as raffish, rascally Basil Seal, motorbiking Father Rothschild (a member of a younger branch of the banking family, who had become a Jesuit priest), and the American evangelist...