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...notable cast of high-priced mummers ?four of whom are in the habit of carrying a show apiece on their shoulders???lifts this play above the ordinary, palpably illustrates Depression in the show business...
Even juvenile imaginations must strain if they are to exaggerate the prowess of Grange. Only 23, legend has already begun to barnacle his babyhood. Tales are told of how, 14, he won a job with an ice-company by swinging a 100-pound block of ice to his shoulders???of how, at 4, after seeing some track and field games at a county fair, he erected a pole and crossbar and taught himself to highjump. The first of these is given a good smell of truth by the much-touted fact that Grange keeps himself conditioned through the hot weather...
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