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...Roxane, Fred, 6, was the foil for Sister Adele's Cyrano de Bergerac in a junior production at their first dancing school in Manhattan. The tyro terpsichores are also glimpsed performing a bride-and-groom routine atop a prop wedding cake, with an incipiently suave Fred already puttin' on his white tie, brushin' off his top hat, dancin' in his tails...
Died. Harry Richman, 77, song-and-dance man of the top hat and tuxedo genre who popularized Puttin' on the Ritz, Walking My Baby Back Home and On the Sunny Side of the Street; in Burbank, Calif. After his start as a Tin Pan Alley song plugger, Richman won stardom in the Broadway revues of the '20s and '30s, where he introduced standards like The Birth of the Blues and It All Depends on You. One of the highest paid stars of the era, and temporary fiancé to "It Girl" Clara Bow, Richman mastered the role...
...sharpest of the Nichols and May nightclub skits, Elaine May does a spoof on a Tennessee Williams heroine who is said to be guilty of "drink, prostitution and puttin' on airs." Last week at the University of Mississippi, a young painter and art teacher was charged with obscenity, indecency and puttin' on art shows...
This hayere show they's a-puttin' on at Kirkland Hayuse roun' about now has hits annoyin' aspects, ya know? Lak Ah means for instance thuh hull damn thang is did in this hayere gawddam diuhlect, which at times gits purty sickenin'. And thuh way them guys clomp aroun' back uh thuh stage and forgit tuh turn thuh lights on an' off ain't inny too plasin' neither. Offhand, Ah cain't thank uv no wuss place to put on uh play than thet thar Kirkland Hayuse Joonyer Cummin Room. Sum uv thuh actin' ain't all thet all-fired...
...song, When You're Smiling, made its point a little too muscularly. But this made no difference. By the first, trumpet-clear, high hard note in the first verse, the woozy feeling had disappeared. Judy swung into a bouncy Almost Like Being in Love, blared with humor in Puttin' On the Ritz, wept her words in The Man That Got Away, and brought down the first-act curtain with a ringing, roistering San Francisco. Long before this, the neutral auditor had realized again (one goes through this every time Judy Garland comes to town) that untidy life, maudlin...