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Last year Captain Torby MacDonald was on the sidelines most of the season with an injured ankle--now Gardella goes into cold storage with a severe charley horse that may keep him out of action for the remainder of the season...
...Charley's Aunt (by Brandon Thomas, produced by Day Tuttle & Richard Skinner). One of the more notable howls of dramatic history rose in the '903-a farce written by an English actor who knew his trade. It still holds fourth place for consecutive performances (1,466 during its original London run), after Tobacco Road, Abie's Irish Rose, Chu-Chin-Chow. But it has been played oftener, all told, than any drama except Hamlet, was once presented simultaneously by 44 companies, has been translated into at least 20 languages, is the only play that has been rendered...
...face of these facts, it was unbecoming, last fortnight, for highbrowed Dramacritic Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times to declare that he "was only mildly amused" by Charley's Aunt revived. He was almost alone in his moderation. Most of the audience achieved an uproarious release. They roared at Lord Fancourt Babberley (José Ferrer, late of The Princeton Triangle Club), who for the umphundredth time agreed to help two fellow Oxonians out of sentimental dilemmas by impersonating the aunt of one of them. And they ogled three of the prettiest baggages (Mary Mason, Phyllis Avery, Katherine Wiman...
...last the critics and intellectuals have gotten Charley Chaplin, hook, line, and sinker. Conscious that he has an IMPORTANT MESSAGE to bring to America, he has in his first talkie painfully given birth to a bastard offspring in which Chaplin the world's greatest clown plays second fiddle to Chaplin the preacher...
...Uncle Sam Selective Service Number 3196 means simply another soldier for his peace time conscription army, but to Coach Dick Harlow and the Varsity football squad it means that next fall they will probably be without the services of Charley Spreyer, who yesterday was moved up to the first string tailback position in place of red-headed Don McNicol...