Last September any fight fan with 40 in his pocket could have seen a spindle-shanked little featherweight Negro named Henry Armstrong strutting his stuff in Manhattan's Madison.
It was one Mary Hickman, teacher, addressing spindle-shanked Jimmy Edwin Christman, aged nine.
Three's A Crowd has for its principals the triple-threat team of last year's Little Show: nimble, spindle-shanked, emaciated Clifton Webb; droll, ready-voiced Fred Allen .