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...skits. But his wife, little Ray Dooley, has all sorts of funny things to do. At one point she is hoisted to the top of a pyramid formed by half a dozen jibbering Arab tumblers. Teetering just under the proscenium arch, she is the picture of comic terror. Again, as an aged Merry Widow, she is tossed all over the stage by a full chorus, while irrepressible Bobby Clark (& McCullough) leads her through a bumbling waltz...
...earnest young U. S. christer's misadventures, it was an able translation of the Wilder talent into current American prose. Instead of Tanagra figurines or Spanish silhouets, the characters were animated U. S. cartoons, drawn with so subtle a line that they seemed more lifelike than comic. As usual in a Wilder story, the philosophic implications were hardly noticeable in the smooth façade of the story...
Last week Don Quixote in English finally reached the U. S. Critics found it lively, visually beautiful, well acted by Chaliapin and a predominantly British cast including jovial old (65) George Robey, music-hall comedian. The pathos of the hero, however, choked off many a laugh at his comic doings...
...comic relief Austria, minute and disarmed by the Treaty of St. Germain, spunkily asked at Geneva last week for "arms equality...
...Morro Castle caught fire last September off the New Jersey coast, killed 134 people and ran aground, it also wrecked the libretto of Producer Vinton Freedley's Anything Goes. Months before in France, the oldtime British libretto team of Guy Bolton and Pelham Grenville Wodehouse had written a comic script about a marine disaster. The Morro Castle tragedy instantly ruled it out as a subject for fun-making. Producer Freedley sent up a distress signal, got two able U. S. showmen, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, to re-do the whole job in three weeks...