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Cabaret--This musical about the degeneration of German society just before Hitler came to power is a heady production emblazoned in the tones of Kurt Weill and George Grosz. Most of the original cast is gone, but the Kander-Ebb score, the Boris Aaronson sets, and Harold Prince's direction--all miraculous--are still there. So is Lotte Lenya, who is as beautiful and gravel-voiced as ever. At the BROADWAY, Broadway at 53rd...
Divorced. John J. Raskob Jr., 33, son of the former Democratic National Chair man ; from Minerva Aaronson Raskob, 29, former New Haven typist whom he mar ried while at Yale; after nine and a half years of marriage; in Reno...
...Having Wonderful Time. In response to the wishes of the Hays office, which also effected a few improving variations on the morals of the personages involved, the heroine's name was changed from Teddy Stern to Teddy Shaw, the hero's from Chick Kessler to Chick Kirkland. Aaronson and Rappaport were Anglicized respectively as Armbruster and Beatty, and even "Itchy" Flexner, the buffoon of the piece, was, according to Author Kober, "forced to change his proud family name to Faulkner...
...perhaps even to find a wife or husband, for Proprietor Abe Tobias offers a free honey moon the following year to any couple whose troth is plighted at Kare-Free. There is Henrietta Brill, a fat girl with Communist tendencies. There is Miriam Robbins who shamefully chases after Pinkie Aaronson, who owns two hat shops, wears solid silk pajamas and has a way with the "pigeons" (girls). There is good-hearted Fay Fromkin, whose girl friend, a late comer, is Teddy Stern (Katherine Locke). Teddy, an unsure, shy little typist with a great desire for gentility, is glad...
...named Chick Kessler (Jules Garfield), meet and quarrel at first, then begin to take an interest in each other in the moonlight when he delivers a little essay about all values being relative and she proudly recites a few lines from Trees. How they then fall out over Pinkie Aaronson and later make up is a tender and amusing tale rendered with penetrating realism. In the enthusiastic first audience were Cinema Producers Darryl Zanuck of Twentieth Century-Fox and B. P. Schulberg. auguring that Playwright Kober and Producer-Director Connelly, who has not turned his hand to so promising...