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Show Mr. Gallagher Has Comeback As Tragedian NEW YORK. Nov. IT (jD He's white haired now and roly-poly, with a gentle voice and a sad, sweet smile, and the tears will fall, they say, whan ha speaks his lines acroas the footlights on Broadway tonight. But offstage he's still the impish-eyed impish-eyed buffoon who rollicked the na- he slithered onto the stage with an-other an-other grotesque-garbed zany and sang: "Oh. Mr. Gallagher! Oh. Mr. Gallagher!" Gal-lagher!" "Hello! What's on your mind this morning. Mr. Shean?" That was in the early postwar years, when Al Shean and the late Edward S. Gallagher stirred a tumult tu-mult through the land, singing their thousand-verse ballads with the haunting refrain that oldsters remember re-member as vividly as "Yes. we have no bananas" or the more recent "The merry-go-round broke down." Tonight Al Shean comes back to Broadway. In the title role of "Father Mala-chy's Mala-chy's Miracle," ths old-time roaring Harlequin, now in his seventies, undertakes un-dertakes an entirely new vein of thespianism. moments," he explained. "It'll seem odd. somehow, if the audience cries the way they say they will, instead of whooping with laughter like they used to do in the old Gallagher and Shean days." |