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Died. Jack Judge, 60, onetime fishmonger and vaudeville trouper, author of It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary, best-known marching song of the World War; of meningitis; in Birmingham, England. On New Year's Day 1912, Judge bet a friend he could write a song before nightfall, sing it successfully and publicly that evening. He won with Tipperary...
...final spasm, still at the interview, Margo learns that her gangster brother has been shot in a prison break. Like a gallant trouper she chokes back her sobs, and the busy curtains close for keeps...
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden (by Dorothy Day Wendell; produced by George Busbar and John Tuerk). Broadway still half believes that there's a broken heart for every light on it, still cultivates the legend of the gallant trouper who smiles through tears. In Tell Me, Pretty Maiden, Doris Nolan, home from such Hollywood productions as The Man I Many and As Good As Married, squanders her talents on the part of a gallant actress, Margo Dare. The persons who get told are a bevy of reporters who interview the lustrous Margo at a cocktail party arranged by her pressagent...
...first-night audience gave its usual delighted applause to Fol-De-Rol's tuneful numbers, sophisticated sets and costumes, its elaborate, manfully executed dance maneuvers. It guffawed whenever possible at Alexander Hays Lehmann's well-horsed lines, admired the direction of Graduate Jose Ferrer, applauded the trouper hardihood of Actors Richard Cowdery and Richard Baer. It also enjoyed the minor accidents incidental to a Triangle Show first night: hats falling off sighing lovers, and dummy legs falling off hobbyhorses, a mob scene's mob missing its cue, spotlights searching frantically for actors bravely singing in the dark...
Confession (Warner Bros.). A onetime gay Polish opera diva, Vera (Kay Francis) is so bereft when her husband Leonide. a nice fattish army officer (Ian Hunter), goes away to the War that she drinks too much at a wild Warsaw party given by her old trouper friends, passes out in the arms of Michael Michailow (Basil Rathbone), a melancholy musician perennially bent on seduction. When Leonide finds Vera in Michailow's apartment he jumps heavily at the worst conclusion, promptly divorces her and takes her baby daughter. Years later Daughter Lisa (Jane Bryan), fatherless now and unaware that Vera...