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Another event in London's theatrical week was the second birthday of Arsenic and Old Lace, which Producer Firth Shephard celebrated by repeating his first-night trick: at the final curtain, a slew of London's topnotch comedians (Jack Buchanan, Will Hay, et al.) file onstage to impersonate the "corpses" who had been elderberried in the cellar...
...boss of Saipan's newly announced 21st Bomber Command, 41-year-old Brigadier General Haywood Shephard ("Possum") Hansell Jr., had to sweat out the mission on the ground. He was not alone; ground crews had all preparations made for the homecoming and were out strolling uneasily around the runways hours before the big silvery planes were due back. But the returning airmen brought less blood-and-thunder narrative than an hour's mission in Europe might produce...
Other U.S. hits include Arsenic and Old Lace, Junior Miss, My Sister Eileen, Panama Hattie. Producer Firth Shephard has such a yen for putting on U.S. plays that a current revue gag runs: "What's Firth Shephard looking so unhappy about ?"-"Oh, someone's given him an English play to read...
William David Shambroom, Edward Thomas Shanks, Daniel Abraham Shephard, Harold Charles Small, Frank Vreeland Snyder, Samuel Alexander Sommers, Jr., Russell Baskin Stannard, Richard Winslow Swanson, Robert Arnold Townsend, Leonard Oscar Weinstein, Richard Foster Woodward, Frank Herbert Wyman...
...seems to be that of an inspiring veterinary, I shall attempt to write along the same zoological lines. The evolution of the Harvard man seems to disprove Mr. Darwin's theory; you boys are going in the opposite direction. You virile young four F's! The only reason those Shephard Street girls would look at a Harvard man twice would be because they couldn't believe it the first time...