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Emancipated, the new 'Cliffie can even "eat crackers in bed," Arlen reports. He notes the recent referendum in which Radcliffe approved a proposal to allow sign-outs to any hour of the morning...
...seems that "nearly total coexistence and coeducation" has done something to the Radcliffe girl--or at least, so says Michael J. Arlen '52 in Sunday's New York Times magazine...
...Cliffie has abandoned "those wretched black stockings," is brighter than her Harvard counterpart, and lives in a predominantly masculine environment, about which, Arlen writes, "she tends to be keenly enthusiastic." The Girl With the Harvard Degree can be "downright solemn at times" about such serious matters as "Independence, Privacy, Personal Freedom, Maturity, and Being-Left-Alone...
Saratoga (adapted from Edna Ferber's novel Saratoga Trunk; music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer) is a gorgeously decked-out period musical, moving from a plush New Orleans in the '80s to a palmy Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The handsome sets and costumes by Cecil Beaton are much the brightest part of the show. Despite some lively Ralph Beaumont dances, some pleasant Harold Arlen music and some neat touches in Morton Da Costa's direction, Saratoga has all the animation of a tableau and all the narrative interest of something written 50 times...
...Arlen score, despite good rhythmic effects, never really gets its beat off the ground. The two or three times the dancing turns lively suggest a last two or three rounds of ammunition desperately fired at the advancing battalions of boredom. Carol Lawrence and Howard Keel are agreeable leads, but to little avail. With none of the succulence of a great big old-fashioned dinner, Saratoga induces all of the somnolence...