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Because of the sudden illness of the leading actor, production of Robert Sherwood's "The Queen's Husband" by the Freshman Dramatic Club will be postponed until Thursday and Friday, April 25 and 26, it was announced yesterday by the executive committee. Henry H. Reed, Jr., who was to play the principal role as King Eric VII, is at present in Stillman Infirmary with a case of German measles...
...France, the effect is bright, colorful and joyfully inane. The damp scenes occur when things attempt to become serious. A Gilbert and Sullivan opus maintains a strain so consistently absurd that it is convincing; "Naughty Marietta" is only sporadically mad, and disturbs the audience by its sudden lapses into sanity. During the voyage to New Orleans, for instance, the cargo of maidens falls into the hands of pirates. These fellows, as villanous a crew as ever infested Penzance, leave their winsome booty strangely inviolate until it is wrested from their grasp by a troop of mercenary soldiers. In the fight...
...inspection last week what seemed to be a young man. "I knew this person's father well," certified General Li. "This person, when a child, was undoubtedly a girl. I am positive of that. Little by little the change took place, until the last stage which was most sudden and occurred during a thunderstorm. After the convulsion of a great clap of thunder, this person appeared to have become a manly youth. Superstitious people think there has been, an act of the Gods. I say it is for Science to decide...
...appreciate manner and appearance as well as vocal qualities, he made a prodigious impression. He got 18 encores, a screen test that led to bit parts in Dancing Lady and Student Tour before he was chosen for the lead in Naughty Marietta. More amazed than delighted by his sudden success, Baritone Eddy, now 33, plans to continue his concert stage career while performing in cinema. In Manhattan for a concert fortnight ago he gave his views on Hollywood and music: "Opera in the movies? ... It isn't entertaining enough. . . . The movies have proved a splendid school for opera people...
...Newark, N. J. last December a hit-&-run driver bashed into a pedestrian, bursting one of his lungs. So dramatic was the sudden ballooning of the victim's entire body that Dr. John Mahoney Atkinson, young house surgeon of Newark City Hospital, got special permission to publish a description of the phenomenon and how he cured it, in last week's issue of the American Journal of Surgery...