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...does seem created, that it displays a style, a sense of one-man showmanship. It also achieves a sustained swinging tempo; as his own triumvirate, Willson escapes all the Stop and Go, the Detour and Closed for Repairs signs of musicomedy collaborations. Boasting a brisk production, and in Robert Preston a delightful star, this 1912 tale of an itinerant con man, a musical ignoramus who invades an Iowa town posing as a bandleader, has unrationed, oldfashioned, bring-the-whole-family high spirits...
...source of exuberance is that, rather than seeming sung or danced or chanted, a lot of production numbers seem spieled or shilled; they have a contagious carnival air, a ballyhoo rhythm. Opening with a jingly, jabbery railroad-car recitative of traveling salesmen, the show soon catapults Actor Preston into River City. There he first catches the town's eye with a kind of stylish evangelical pitch called Trouble, then clutches the town by the lapels with a rousing Seventy Six Trombones. Later in a gay, public-library ballet, Preston soft-shoes a hard sell of love-making...
...PRESTON BROWN, Eliot; freshman baseball manager; PBH tutoring; Hasty Pudding; HDC; Eliot Drama Group; Pre-Law Society; House soccer...
...Preston Brown, Eliot; Thomas C. Cochran, Jr., Winthrop; Dale W. Junta, Adams; Robert P. McVey, Leverett; Steven R. Rivkin, Lowell; Henry M. Schwarz, Lowell; Walter J. Stahura, Winthrop; Robert D. Storey, Leverett; and Griffith J. Winthrop, Winthrop: are running for class Marshal and not for class representative
Extensive changes affecting all Economics concentrators have just been instituted by the department, Lee Preston, chairman of the Board of Tutors, confirmed yesterday. The changes, leading toward greater flexibility in requirements, were made on recommendation of the Department's Committee on Undergraduate Instruction...