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...boiled shirt swelling and falling over his Cyclopean chest, Jim Londos (real name: Christopher Theophilus), sometime airplane-spinning wrestling champ, made a debut at Philadelphia's swank Academy of Music with a lecture on wrestling as practiced by the ancients...
...play's humor is weak, its potential charm is great, and the Guild's leading players are perfectly at home in the blandishing groove. Helen Hayes makes her Broadway Shakespearean debut (two years ago she played Portia in Chicago) in the role of Viola, who, in boy's clothes, pleads the amorous cause of the Duke of Illyria, Orsino, whom she loves herself. There is little in the part to show Miss Hayes's powers as an upper-case Shakespearean Actress. She scores merely by being Helen Hayes, very feminine despite her striped pantaloons, giving...
...Pleased that Nazimova shared a conviction that he himself had held for years, Oboler turned out an opus called The Ivory Tower, in which, for the union minimum of $21, Nazimova made her first appearance on the air. This week Oboler will present another famed actress in her radio debut. She is Elisabeth Bergner, who will run through Oboler's latest radio work, An American is Born...
...week season. This year's new angel and ardent publicizer: Publisher Robert ("Bertie") McCormick of the Tribune. There were other novel ties. A chorus whose average age was 25 tickled Chicago eyes as well as ears. The Ballet Theatre, which earned huzzahs at its Manhattan debut last year, joined forces with the singers. Last fortnight a performance of Carmen got columns of publicity: in the last act 18 Chicago cops, led by Chief of Traffic Captain David Flynn, took turns appearing as Spanish dragoons riding nine police-department horses...
...Harvard in Portrait," a yearly calendar featuring prize-winning photographs of University life and buildings, will make its debut within the next ten days, it was announced last night by its publisher, Oliver Statler...