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...Publishers' Weekly, Associate Editor Alice Payne Hackett has compiled a record of U.S. literary taste from 1895 to the present. Titles like Charles Major's When Knighthood Was in Flower. (1899), John Fox Jr.'s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), Michael Arlen's The Green Hat (1925) awake as many memories as old tunes. Winston Churchill was a name on everybody's lips in the first years of the century. It meant not a British statesman but a U.S. author (no kin) whose historical novels of early America (Richard Carvel, The Crisis...
Bloomer Girl (book by Sig Herzig and Fred Saidy from a play by Lilith & Dan James; music & lyrics by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg; produced by John C. Wilson in association with Nat Goldstone) was a roaring hit before it ever opened. Even after the superlatives have settled and the hats have dropped from the air, it remains a superior musical. A shiny period piece, it has approached its job with talent and invested a fortune with taste. Verbal comedy aside, it is an unusually well-rounded show-good music, likable lyrics, attractive dancing, engaging performers, stylish sets, gorgeous...
...this is pleasantly interrupted by Composer Arlen's (Stormy Weather, Blues in the Night, That Old Black Magic) music-the choral lilt of When the Boys Come Home, the solemn gaiety of Sunday in Cicero Falls (a big spectacle number), the romantic fooling of Evelina, the dusky The Eagle and Me, the warm balladry of I Got a Song (put over with a bang by huge black Richard Huey...
...Aerial Gunner" with Chester Morris and Richard Arlen while it at least has some plot, falls too much into the rut of the usual war pictures. If you like that blood and thunder stuff that acts like sandpaper on your nerves, you might like "Aerial Gunner...
...Sarong. And A Peckaboo Rang," MacMurray, Milland, Tone, and Overman revive George Kaufman's classic "If Men Played Cards As Women Do." and Rochester's zoot suit number is stolen by un-billed dancer Katharine Dunham. Bing Crosby is really wasted, however, on the patriotic finale, and Harold Arlen's song "Old Glory." is a rehash from his own and better "God's Country...