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...goosing of a tart with a loaf of bread, and the kneeing of an officer in the groin by a brothel-keeper. Ronald Frazier is amusing enough as Elbow, the malapropistic constable (a type better managed in the Dogberry of Much Ado About Nothing); and so is the clowning tapster Pompey of Rex Everhart, who has been doing such roles for the AST off and on since its first season. Gene Nye turns the disreputable Froth into a stuttering nincompoop that is vastly overdone; measure. Mr. Nye, please...
...Manhattan, Master Tapster Bill Robinson got a 70th-birthday cake (see cut), a Broadway blowout, a cruise party up the Hudson, a watch, and plaster casts of his feet, which he examined and pronounced authentic ("Got the bunions and all"). In Tokyo, General Douglas MacArthur gave the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post an autographed picture of himself...
Jaundice put master tapster Ray Bolger in hospital, closed Broadway's Three to Make Ready for the time being...
...Blackburn, trainer of Joe Louis, some 30,000 citizens hung on the ropes. The crowd on the streets shouted and sang hymns. Women were knocked over, children screamed. When the services were over and the casket came out, borne by pallbearers that included Soldier Joe Louis, Swingster Cab Calloway, Tapster Bill Robinson, the mob broke through the police lines to touch the casket for good luck. When the hearse finally moved off everybody was still shouting, and the fallen were picking themselves...
Once the boast of Harlem, now just a strong link in the Broadway chain, the Cotton Club doops a lot of colored hotcha and horseplay. Though much of the old animal verve of Harlem has given way to routine Broadway showmanship, the show has winning headliners in Tapster Bill Robinson (see col. j) and Crooner Cab Galloway; a pleasant surprise in Hymn Swinger Sister Tharpe; plenty of jungle...