Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barnum and Bailey World, Just as phony...
...bought a nursery firm, used its stock to landscape his vast lawns, and sold the company at a $1,500 profit. Then he argued his creditors into letting him go on drilling. After that he really got rich with a string of successful explorations at Chocolate Bayou, Anchor, Bailey's Prairie, Coleto Creek, Angleton, Winnie-Stowell and Blue Lake...
...prime delight of the show is Pearl Bailey. As a runaway slave named Virginia in Virginia and Connecticut in Connecticut, she manages to be now all charm, now all perkiness, now all rhythm. She gives Arms and the Girl its one sock number when she sings There Must Be Something Better Than Love...
...Fields & Rouben Mamoulian; music by Morton Gould; lyrics by Dorothy Fields; produced by the Theatre Guild in association with Anthony Brady Farrell) can thank its stars that they are its stars. For Broadway's Nanette Fabray and the Continent's Georges Guetary, together with Singing Comedienne Pearl Bailey, have the charm and personality to make Arms and the Girl a good deal better evening than it is a show...
Admirers of Pearl Bailey will not be surprised to hear that she stops the show with two of Morton Gould's tunes, "Nothin' for Nothin'" and "There Must Be Something Better Than Love." She talks, moves, sings, and dances as if she were perpetually tipsy. It's always a pleasure to watch her perform, because she makes even commonplace material come alive...