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Bright Boom. In the garish '20s of the black bottom and the Charleston, Gilda's shimmy seemed to sparkle with a special sheen. She danced in the Ziegfeld Follies and George White's Scandals. She worked with the big names: Will Rogers, Gallagher & Shean. She earned the reputation of being one of the highest paid performers in the world, and she could brag of having made $4,000,000 in only ten years on the stage...
...Saturday BU was allowed only six hits, two of which were gotten by Dick Mills, captain and first baseman. HARVARD BOSTON UNIV. Foynes, cf Sherman, 3b Caulfield, 1b Rickson, ss White, ss Edwards, lf Moffie, lf Mills, 1b Crosby, c Agganis, cf Walsh, rf Winkler, rf Huntington, 3b Shean, 2b Cavanaugh, 2b Bevins, c Godin, p Chartier...
...starting lineups: HARVARD BU Foynes, rf Sherman, 3b Caulfield, lf Rickson, ss White, as Edwards, lf Moffie, ef Mills, 1b Crosby, c Agganis, cf Kenary, 1b Winkler, rf Huntington, 3b Shean, 2b Cavanaugh,. 2b Bevins, c Godin, p Grolms...
...Died. Al Shean (real name: Albert Schonberg), 81, apple-cheeked, amiable comic favorite in the oldtime vaudeville team of ("Positively") Mr. Gallagher* & ("Absolutely") Mr. Shean, which wowed audiences in the '20s (they played 67 weeks in the 1923-24 Ziegfeld Follies^ made their 500-odd verses household jingles) ; in Manhattan. A veteran of 60 years in show business, German-born Al Shean first turned to legitimate theater in 1912 (he also made some 20 Hollywood films), scored his biggest Broadway hit 25 years later as the Benedictine monk in Father Malachy's Miracle...
...bittersweet words of Mr. Trimingham and Mr. Trott, a jingle attributed to a U.S. Navyman on duty in expensive Bermuda in World War II (and sung to the tune of Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean), were being cheerfully chorused in Bermudian cabarets almost every night last week. In a crowded paradise almost 90% dependent on the money which tourists bring in, merchants and hotelkeepers were collecting their highest prices ever-while U.S. tourist traffic boomed along toward a record season...