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...bare-tummied slave girls paraded "for sale or for rent," and a number of jokes like, "CAll me in the harom; I'll be lying down there," Kismet is often indistringuishable from Harem Nights at the Old Howard. Further debits are abominable lyrics ("We'll coo adien without undue ado"), a script short on humor of any kind, and except for a rather striking bridal procession, elementary and often drab settings by Lemuel Ayers...

Author: By George Spelvin., | Title: Theatre First Night | 12/4/1953 | See Source »

...bare-tummied slave girls paraded "for sale or for rent," and a number of jokes like, "Call me in the harem; I'll be lying down there," Kismet is often indistinguishable from Harem Nights at the Old Howard. Further debits are abominable lyrics ("We'll coo adicu without undue ado"), a script short on humor of any kind, and except for a rather striking bridal procession, elementary and often drab settings by Lemuel Ayers...

Author: By R. E. Oldenburg, | Title: Kismet | 10/24/1953 | See Source »

After a year of filming and two weeks of advertising, Ivy Films has premiered Gold Coasting. Although the movie lacks the professional polish of most Hollywood productions, it is more cleverly written and in spots more amusing than either of Ivy's earlier films, Much Ado About Studying, and Touch of the Times...

Author: By Byron R. Wien, | Title: Gold Coasting | 3/20/1953 | See Source »

...Much Ado About Nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Plays In Manhattan, may 12, 1952 | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...Rosy" Rosenbach has taken everything that came in sight. He bought all four folios of the collected plays published between 1623 and 1685. He paid close to $75,000 for a splendid, mint-condition copy of the First Folio, and $21,000 for a first edition (1600) of Much Ado About Nothing. His Troilus and Cressida, dated 1609, is the only known uncut copy of any play published while Shakespeare was still alive. He picked up 68 of the 250 rare Shakespeare quartos known to be in existence, and one of the twelve first edition sonnets published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Shakespeare | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

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