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...York World's Fair, as a part of a Merrie England folderol, the Bard of Avon is played inside a replica of the famed Elizabethan Globe Theatre. Thanks to Director Margaret Webster, the Old Globe's Shakespeare is neither skittish nor stodgy. Four Shakespeare comedies-As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew-have been shrunk to a quarter their usual size, ironed without starch. Punched into shape as unceremoniously as a vaudeville act, Shakespeare's one-acters-runoff seven times a day-perk...
...Margaret Webster, newsreel-length Shakespeare was a light chore at the end of a heavy season. Besides laboring at the Maurice Evans Hamlet and Henry IV Part I, she directed the current Family Portrait, plays Mary Magdalene in it. The most powerful new director in the U. S. theatre, Margaret Webster is bold, witty, imaginative. She does not approach Shakespeare on bended knee, but gives him a hearty slap on the back...
...outstanding dance record of the year in 1938 by one of the largest swing clubs in the country. His "Remember When," an old Victor recording, makes "Gloomy Sunday" seem something like a nursery rhyme. And on all of his records, saxmen Willie Smith and Joe Thomas, brass men Oliver, Webster, and Young, and the rhythm section provide good solos. Incidentally, if you think Harry James plays high trumpet, listen to Mr. Webster; he's the highest in the business...
...least a few days. Anderson's accident brings the sick list up to two, the other player being Captain Phil Hammond. HARVARD DARTMOUTH Hanford, g g, Hastings Livingston, pt. pt., Case Lewis, c pt c pt, Sterling Gilbert, ld ld, Hoskinson Blotner, 2d 2d, Van Mator Willard c c, Webster Ferris, 2a 2a, Catherine Anderson, 1a 1a, Merriam Zouck, oh oh, Fuller Halstead, lh lh, Brown
...chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, pink, parbald product of the Chicago Democratic machine, campaign manager for Governor Horner and Senator Scott Lucas. Son of a coal-yard foreman, Jimmy Slattery early got on the city pay roll, became secretary of the late Senator Lewis' new law college (Webster), begat eleven children, never won an election for himself...