It is home, after all, to Ding Dong Daddy, hero of a 1930s music-hall number still popular as the theme-song of an annual Dumas summer festival (though Dumas, Texas also claims him).

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And it was Hall, who had earlier starred with the bat, who also became the hero with the ball right at the death.

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In the third installment of the popular franchise, Hall plays Maya Hansen, a brainy scientist who develops a secret weapon for hero Tony Stark.

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