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...Barry Was a Lady tells of a washroom attendant who wins $75,000 in a sweepstakes and tries to marry a nightclub singer. He drinks a Mickey Finn intended for his rival, and dreams that he is Louis XV and the singer Du Barry. This permits an unsurpassably false picture of court and boudoir high jinks at Versailles which, had they been true, would have considerably speeded up the Revolution...
...musical from bogging down are changes of interpretation and ad libbing. Already he has ad libbed several lines which have been incorporated into the script. For instance, in that classic scene in the men's room of a small night club, where he is coaching his successor as washroom attendant and telling him the chance of promotion, he ad libbed, "Why, if you click in this joint, you may work up to some four-sinker like the 'Mayfair...
...Ninotchka's small apartment whose limited lebensraum she shares with a girl cellist, a beefy Russian streetcar conductress of the kind Poet e. e. cummings called "non-men," and a dark, dumpy little man who plods silently in & out-"You never know whether he is going to the washroom or the secret police...
...Mutesellim, was picked as the probable site of Armageddon by Harold Haydon Nelson of the University of Chicago, and the university's Rockefeller-endowed Oriental Institute started digging there in 1925. The diggers found the palace of the Egyptian princes with a gaudily painted court and a washroom paved with seashells; a rich hoard of art objects in gold, ivory, lapis lazuli and electrum (gold-silver alloy); an inscription of the Pharaoh Shishak who plundered Jerusalem; and stables built by King Solomon large enough to house 300 horses...
Rehearsals of the Harvard Dramatic Club were thrown in turmoil last night by the wild and victorious cackling of the two hens which are harbored in the washroom of its 13 Holyoke Street headquarters. Francis R. Hart, Jr. '27, author and director of "Straight Scotch," called for silence but got no results. Stage manager Kenneth T. Bird '38 reprimanded the various boards to keep quiet, but was met only with surprised and painful looks...