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...female impersonations, especially of Tallulah. Short-haired Billie Hayes makes a lively ditty of / Could Love Him, Virginia Martin a lively ditty of Talent. In La Ronde a foursome smoothly act out a liltish tune. Funniest spoof proves to be one more take-off on a big Ziegfeld-era staircase number, with a showgirl, rigged out like an entire orange grove, having a ghastly time on the stairs. There is fun in Steady, Edna, which rags a British jungle film, while an upper-class British domestic skit has a husband shouting, "To hell with cricket," and his wife replying coldly...
Tallulah matches wits with Carol Haney in their race for the title of Miss America of some years back. They're both pretty dry, in Ziegfeld Follies at the Shubert at 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. today...
...trip to London, returned with a British accent and a new name-Blade Stanhope Conway. He was hired for the Broadway production of Galsworthy's The Roof. When the vogue for English actors faded, Bob changed his name to Brice Hutchens, emerged as a juvenile lead in the Ziegfeld Follies and, finally, adopted a Texas accent and took his own name to play opposite Margaret Sullavan in Hollywood...
Died. Willy Pogany, 72, Hungarian-born painter, illustrator and architectural designer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. With little formal training, Pogany became one of the most versatile artists of his day. Among his creations: murals for Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater; scenes, sets and costumes for the Metropolitan Opera's Cog d'Or; three 18-ft. stained-glass windows in Los Angeles' Forest Lawn Cemetery...
Between hour exams that Fall, the Class of '30 relaxed by watching singer Ruth Etting, star of Ziegfeld's "Whoopee." In a CRIMSON interview, Miss Etting said that she picked most of her songs by the "heart throb" in them because "the kids like the sob stuff." Today, the currently most-popular motion picture in Boston now at Loew's State Theater, is the life story of this same performer as portrayed by Dovis...