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Annie-Joe had simply not shown up for the matinee. No one knew where she was, so her understudy, Gwen Shepherd, went on for her. The matinee was sold out, very good house. Gwen got through it without a hitch
Gwen Shepherd gets the double-entendre songs, "Take Me for a Buggy Ride" and "Kitchen Man."
Gwen Shepherd, buxom and bubbling with joyous spirits that frequently spill out over her sorrows, lies on a bed going through a scrapbook.
While the casting in general is creditable, there is one real coup in Gwen Shepherd, who turns Queenie, the rotund mammy type supporting role that is often a scene stealer, into a real show. With her awesome, booming contralto and hysterical, high-pitched laughter, Miss Shepherd is the spirit of that Mississippi levee incarnate.