Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 11, 1929

Boom-Boom. Someone said: "I won a beauty contest once." Someone else replied: "I'll bet it was in a raffle." The audience sat silent. There was altogether too much of that sort of thing in this revival of some of the best jokes of the revival.and subsequent decades. But there was Nell Kelly, slim and not angular, who distorts her features until she looks like a terrifying Donald McKee drawing of the younger generation. There was also Harry Welsh, whose eyebrows know innuendo and who is...

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