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Fresh out of Duke University in 1940, where he had been captain of the baseball team, Davis joined Connie Mack's club, but spent his first year behind $45,000 Benny McCoy, the A's widely publicized second sacker who had been obtained only the season before. Still, he managed to play thirty-five games with the Mackmen in '41, and he became a regular the next year, hitting...
...constructed, and though the tendency of the players is towards farce in places, the sheer funniness of the lines themselves refuses to be obscured. A variety of Russian acconts further complicate the proceedings and tend to bewilder both the audience and the players. Handsomely set in another of Andrew Mack's distinctive settings, however, the production shows some amazingly fine acting from some of the Jesser characters in the play...
Presenting Julie Haydon in Dale Eunson and Hagar Wilde's psychological thriller, the Cambridge Summer Theatre has spared none of the trimmings. Miss Haydon has long been a favorite with both Broadway and summer stock patrons; Andrew Mack's setting is bound to bring designing offers from the main stem, and the acting of the supporting cast is of an unusually high caliber...
...note of natural humor. Doubling in the role of author and actor, Harold Kennedy plays the faithful friend Tony as if the part had been written for him. Louise Valery, Lee Nugent, Allan Tower, Miranda Swanson and David Tyrell round out the cast. It should be said that Andrew Mack's set is probably the best of its kind that has been seen in many a straw-hat season...
...performance will be a return engagement to the little theatre, as she made her legitimate stage debut at Brattle Hall but two seasons ago. Known to all movie fans from 17 to 70, it was she who introduced glamour to motion pictures. Starting her career in Hollywood with Mack Sennet and Keystone, her first pictures were the bathing-beauty and cop-chasing comedies of the silent picture era. Soon she was working under Cecil B. DeMille and is said to have caused men to swoon and women to turn chartreuse with envy...