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Alcohol is plentiful here and not restricted to three sale-days a week. Motor and man drink from the same tap...
...Bolger, the Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz" and a famed tap dancer, Virginia O'Brien, co-starring with Bolger in "Keep of the Grass," opening in Boston April 29 may possibly appear with other members of the cast, while Ray Guild, winner of first prize in the Freshman Amateur Hour Wednesday night, and the Wessel brothers, who appeared on Major Bowes program and are now in Steubens in Boston, have a series of impersonations to amuse the crowd...
...billiards at Harvard, whose business card reads "show me a shot I can't make." Sample Peterson shot: standing a half-dollar on its rim between two cubes of chalk in the centre of the table, sending it to the cushion and back between the cubes, with one tap...
...capacity for natural acting are bound to put across any production, no matter how fantastic its plot or how mediocre its songs. Not that the plot of "Broadway Melody of 1940" is fantastic as musical comedy plots go. Fred Astaire and George Murphy appear first as the tap-dancing team at a small and not too swanky cafe. There they are seen by agent Frank Morgan, who spots Fred as a potential star. However, by a slight mistake in the front office, George Murphy is hired to be Eleanor Powell's male lead in her new show. Then comes trouble...
...rottenness and unfairness of this system of recognizing merit cannot be denied. The team is saddled with rank and totally unnecessary injustice. The solution is obvious and compelling. Letters must be awarded to all who compete against Yale, should they tap the edge a glorious first, or a die-hard fourth...