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Tony, as played by Robert Weede, is robust and never really very down-drodden, which is pleasing because in a musical no one ever wants to be sad anyway. Weede's voice of course is quite adequate, and he avoids over-doing a potentially obnoxious role.
The music for Love Rides the Rails by Varick Bacon and Victor Ziskin is uneven. Two show-stopping numbers, "Rag-Time Rosie" and "Friends" seem to redeem much of his material which generally lacks originality. Lyrics by Jay Cavior are quite clever. Choreographer Dolly Niggemeyer had little dancing talent to...
The triumph of Richard is the triumph of sheer mummery-though inevitably the applause will not go to all the actors in equal measure. The women are excellent. Claire Bloom, as Richard's wife, has no choice but to portray a pallid case of hemi-Ophelia, but her softness...
After 2½ years Lausche graduated from law school, second in his class. He was also second, in a group of 160 applicants, when he passed his bar examinations with a mark of 91.7. In 1920 he joined Locher, Green & Woods, the law firm where he had clerked. Almost immediately...
Centering the first three lines alternately with Bob Cleary, McVey was high scorer in the match with one goal and an assist. His tally, which came on a pass from Lyle Guttu, tied the score in the first period after Brown had netted a crowd-pleasing goal at 0:12...