Word: welford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adequate to the demands made on it. Expert playing by Ina Claire and directing by David Belasco got The Gold Diggers across on the legitimate stage. Miss Claire's role is taken in the picture by a good-looking but not particularly talented young woman named Nancy Welford. Inevitably the feeble gaiety intended in the reversal of the first situation, with the rescuing guardian succumbing to the showgirl, is smothered by the constant singing, by the manipulation of ballets in bright, blurry costumes, by Winnie Lightner's noisy wisecracks...
...Back Bay Blues", by A. A. Fisk '22, has been picked out by Mr. Richard Gallegher and Miss Nancy' Welford, the stars of "Up She Goes", as particularly adapted to professional purposes, and will be included in the musical score of "Up She Goes" on Harvard Night...
...Walter Catlett in "Sally", although he perhaps has not the latter's versatility. He gots away with some original stuff, and is really Irresistibly funny. His scenes with Maggie (Kitty Kelly) are among the best. Another member who adds a great deal to the general hilarity is Dallas Welford as Martin Frost. He is not on the stage half enough, but when he does come on, he is the center of attraction. We know a professor whose face gets red just before he explodes exactly like "old Frosty's", so we enjoyed the exhibition superlatively. Whoever conceived the scene where...