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According to its curator Bruno Gaudichon, in the early '30s people in the mill city were determined to create "the most beautiful swimming pool in France." Architect Albert Baert produced a complex in which all classes mingled, including the factory hands whose homes lacked electricity and running water. They must have appreciated the individual bathtubs and shower cabins as well as the beauty salons, massage rooms and restaurant. Visitors entered through a Romanesque portico, changed in a cabin like a monk's cell and then plunged into a 50-m pool under a giant barrel vault terminated at either...
...often in Hollywood's version of the '30s, the rich are sleek, fat, boozy, faintly ridiculous. The media (newspapers and their editors, in this case) make idiots of themselves in a montage of pinwheeling banner headlines: LOVE TRIUMPHANT! screams the "New York Mail" over the phony "yarn" of Westley and Ellie being madly in love...
...Berlin never topped the work he did for Astaire on three 30s film musicals; neither did anyone else. The 13 Berlin songs Astaire sang and recorded from "Top Hat," "Follow the Fleet" and "Carefree" all landed in the pop charts' top 15. Three ("Cheek to Cheek," "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket," "Change Partners") got to #1. Two others ("Top Hat, White Tie and Tails," "Let Yourself Go") hit #2. "Isn't This a Lovely Day" reached #3. And all have lingered like a perfume that never goes stale. The range and artistry, the vigor and virtuosity...
...Berlin's ability to generate new hits had long since been sapped. Indeed, after Astaire's run of mid-30s hits, Berlin's only chart-toppers were instant nostalgia items, some actual oldies (Les Brown's 1949 version of the 1937 "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"), some that only seemed that way ("White Christmas"). "Annie Get Your Gin" spawned three top-10 songs but no #1's. His last charter was another secular spiritual, "Count Your Blessings" - #5 for Eddie Fisher...
...42ND STREET Broadway wasn't exactly clamoring for a revival so soon of Gower Champion's 1980 musical, based on the 1933 movie. But with thousands of tapping feet, a score brimming with seemingly every great movie song from the '30s, and the perfect role (finally) for the wonderful Christine Ebersole, this show is sheer...