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...girl together who are looking for a pleasant evening on this last weekend will find it by playing around with Ed Wynn's "Boys and Girls Together." Or, more particularly, with Ed Wynn himself, who is the show, the whole show, and a perfect fool in the process. On the radio he may be pretty bad, but on the boards he has the charm of Mickey Rooney, and ordinary people can only wonder how a man can stand, practically alone, on a stage for three hours, talking and waving his arms feebly, and never letting his audience down...
Schnozzle Durante rushes about the stage much as usual, like a worried tornado; he works harder than any other comedian, except possibly Ed Wynn. He makes a most unorthodox-looking Romeo, whose wooing of Juliet (Ilka Chase) is more like a bombardment than a courtship. In the loudest clothes ever worn by a white man, he cuts loose with a song called A Fugitive from Esquire. As a harassed guide, he attempts to conduct some hooligans through the ''Modernist Room" of the Metropolitan Museum. As a harassed tree surgeon he takes the temperature and sap-pressure...
Burt and Gilkey were defeated by Stephens and Rutledge in the first doubles engagement, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5; and Homer Peabody and Sonny Lyell lost to the Eli combine of Thorn and Kelly, 5-7, 7-5, 6-4. Corey Wynn and Orme Wilson gave Harvard its only point in the number three doubles match by beating Ehrman and Blair...
Harvard took all of the doubles matches as the Lyell-Peabody, the Palfre-Stewart, and the Westheimer-Wynn combinations won in straight sets...
Lyell defeated Braunlich, 6-2, 6-2; Wynn won from Freeman, 6-2, 8-6; Hough beat Kaneb, 6-3, 6-2; Wilson beat Samuels, 7-5, 6-1; and Marvin trimmed Herron, 6-1, 6-3. The Crimson netmen followed this up with wins in two out of the three doubles engagements...