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...Tracy Wynn, 18, belongs with his brother Ned, 22, to the third generation of stage-struck Wynns (preceded by Father Keenan and Grandfather Ed). Tracy has his first stage role this summer (in San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse dramatization of Tom Sawyer), but he never had much doubt about his career. When his interest occasionally wandered from the theater, he recalls, his mother would "remind me that we were a theatrical family and that that's where I ought...
...mystery of Messenger's list: ten names of men who have met "accidental" deaths. Messenger himself cannot help; just after making the list, he blows up with the plane carrying the vicar's valise. Detective George C. Scott, in a mustache that makes him rather resemble Keenan Wynn, labors manfully, and in the end tracks down the despicable arranger of the accidents and even ferrets out his horrid motive...
Coach Corey Wynn said that Adam's "quick disposal of West in the Yale match spurred the team on to a resounding 8-1 victory." Adams will probably be the only member of the freshman squad to move into the varsity lineup next year...
Enter the villain (Keenan Wynn), a mustached miscreant named Alonzo Hawk who proposes a dastardly scheme to get rich quick: buy stock in glass companies, and then-heh-heh-heh-break every window in the world! But the professor proudly refuses, and jumps in his flivver. He doesn't want to miss The Big Game-and neither will any moviegoer who needs a good, old-fashioned locomotive laugh. It's a flubbergasser...
...fact, Porter's show is not at all the re-make of Garbo's wonderful film Ninotchka it pretends to be: it is really one long burlesque skit, as its title suggests, recalling the glorious days when our forefathers went to hear Milton Berle or Ed Wynn or Phil Silvers crack jokes that hurt, and pinch backsides that apparently couldn't be. Even in the generally disastrous first act of Silk Stockings--when the scenery is swaying, and the music is too soft when people are singing, and too loud behind them when they're talking--there are moments when...