The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 21, 1934

The Milky Way (by Lynn Root & Harry Clork; Sidney Harmon & James R. Ullman, producers). Besides skunk cabbages, Spring also produces here & there a bright-hued crocus. It was only to be expected that, somewhere within last week's vernal jungle of rank theatrical growths, one amusing piece would pop up its head. That piece is The Milky Way. Burleigh Sullivan (Hugh O'Connell) was a weakly child—"a Sagittarius baby," he recalls—who only survived his school days by his gift for adroit ducking. This talent he uses to good effect one evening...

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