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Queried by TIME for his opinion of Whiteside, ex-Dramatic Critic Woollcott answered: "I only review plays for money." In Too Many Girls (produced by George Abbott) Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, who always bob up with something as little like their last musicomedy as possible, have jumped all the way from Shakespeare and old Syracuse to college and New Mexico. Their scene is a rundown campus called Pottawatomie ("One of those colleges that play football on Fridays") and their plot a combination of Boy Meets Girl and Team Beats Rival...
Good as it is, the music is not Rodgers at quite his best or most individual. But where Rodgers has dropped the reins, Producer Abbott has seized them and gone to town like Yankee Doodle. He has given Too Many Girls the genuine youthfulness of such Abbott comedies as Brother Rat and What a Life, and for the same reason: because it is full of natural, exuberant young people. He has given it a headlong pace, a slam-bang zest and zip. Too Many Girls is in no one respect outstanding, but it doesn't need...
Chief worry at the moment is a fullback. With Waldstein and Whittler on the sidelines the berth has gone to Abbott, who a week ago was on the third team. Whether he will measure up in other departments is a most point, but it is quite clear that he can't replace Waldstein as a kicker. Nor can anyone else, and with the hopes of Waldstein being ready to play for any length of time rather dim, this dilemma may cause considerable trouble...
...Freshman booters journeyed to Exeter only to be turned back 2 to 1 by the Exonians. Cal Calhoun scored the Crimson goal, while Abbott and Palmer scored for the home team...
...time, and the pin boys are much too slow in setting them up again. The show has laughs, but never (as a farce must) piles up its laughter; everybody works a little too hard, tries to be a little too crazy. It's the old George Abbott formula minus the old George Abbott form: quite a drop from the headlong days of Three Men on a Horse and Room Service, when in the world of farce, the Abbotts spoke only...