Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 13, 1929

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The Little Show. Like an animated issue of such smart charts as Vanity Fair and The New Yorker is this revue, gathered by clever Manhattanites from the fancies, satires, slap-sticks of their native city. Merry, squint-eyed Fred Allen, whose voice sounds as though it ran over a ratchet, is chief wisecracker. Elongated Clifton Webb does a variety of turns, from elegant ballroom maneuvers to a parody of the John Erskine school of historical fiction. At one point, dressed as a Carthaginian warrior, he keeps languidly remarking: "Oh nuts!" It was in the...

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