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Three's A Crowd has for its principals the triple-threat team of last year's Little Show: nimble, spindle-shanked, emaciated Clifton Webb; droll, ready-voiced Fred Allen; mellifluous, primordial Libby Holman So excellent is the work of these three performers that the framework of the show seems almost negligible. Best scenes of the headliners...
...dispense with the valuable title of their successful intimate review of last season their present attraction would not suffer by inevitable comparison. Last week critics could not restrain themselves from hearking back to the cleverness of last year's show, the clowning of Fred Allen, the gyrations of Clifton Webb, the ululations of Libby Holman...
Next morning Clifton and Einar sat in a Copenhagen dock. The two young frokener screamed charges that they had been treated worse than roughly. Einar, when he saw how things were shaping, "ran amuck in the courtroom" according to Copenhagen newspapers, and "overpowered by three policemen, was locked up in a cell, howling for drugs...
...Clifton, who had sat quietly through the running-amuck, said in his deferential chauffeur's voice that of course he had not molested either of the frokener, but he confessed in barely audible tones, "I did take out Mr. Booth's car ... for the evening . . . without permission...
Indulgent, the Danish judge released Clifton from custody. When the frokener raised a clamor, policemen shushed them. Next day Clifton moped while a Royal automobile flanked by a company of His Majesty's Guards carried the U. S. Minister to Castle Amalienborg. After presenting credentials to King Christian X, Mr. Booth was presented to Queen Alexandrine...