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...Keith Memorial Theatre is running this week at the Uptown Theatre. It is one of the finest pictures of the season and has enjoyed a just popularity. The Uptown is also showing that colorful, rhythmic short film entitled "La Cucaraclfa". Based on the picturesque song of Villa's swash-bucklers it is filmed in color and presents some very capable dancing and singing...
...Fred Goudy had designed his 92nd type face. To celebrate the event Manhattan's National Arts Club gave a reception in his honor, exhibited such typographical curiosities as a leaf from a Gutenberg Bible, an old hat belonging to Mr. Goudy, a gold matrix of a swash "G."* Spectators were informed that never before in the history of typography had anybody cut a matrix of gold. Mr. Goudy chose "G" because it stands for Goudy...
...Swash: a letter introduced into a type font for ornamental purposes...
...stars who are returning from last year's production are: Robert Breckenridge '34, who was president of the Harvard Dramatic Association last year; Henry H. Brewster '35, whose inebriated tap dance last year will be remembered as one of the high-lights; Arthur M. Jones, Jr. '36, the swash-buckling pirate chief; Waters Kellogg '34, the perennial chorine; and Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, Lawrence von B. Nichols '35, Peter W. Jopling '35, Eugene N. Foss, II '34, and Daniel T. V. Huntoon '35, all of whom will be remembered for their parts in last year's show "Step Lively...
...Theatre Guild has collected seven pretty girls, a gang of cowboys, some border ballads, and a good many dirty jokes, which it has woven into a play that is called, for want of anything better, "Green Grow The Lilacs." When all this was done a plot involving a swash-buckling cowhand, a shy young maiden, and a villian whose hands dripped with the blood of past crimes, was added for the sake of convention. The result is supposed to represent the Indian Territory...