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Meanwhile, a few blocks away in Boston's Hotel Ritz-Carlton, Authors Bella & Sam Spewack, shuddering at the thought of Broadway critics, were slashing the script of Leave It to Me, rushing off to hammer typewriters. While the audience was holding its sides over Act II, Act II was going, bit by bit, into the Spewack wastebasket. While the audience was filing out after the show, behind the curtain the cast was flopping down on the stage before being handed practically new parts and rehearsing them far into the night...
...BELLA VISTA...
...that delayed the production half an hour but was more than deserved by all concerned. Calculated to delight the lovers of gay tunes and sprightly if at times questionable patter, the play offers fifteen songs, most of which do justice to their composer, and a laugh-packed book by Bella and Samuel Spewack...
...guardsmen, acting five parts at once in one of their screen plays, generally giving the impression of being possessed of a legion of March hares. But when Boy Bruce Lester meets Girl Marie Wilson, an inclination to dawdle sets in. Both versions of Boy Meets Girl were written by Bella & Samuel Spewack. After much thought last week on the question, Was the play better on screen or stage? critics came to no concerted conclusion, felt sentimentally inclined to favor the Broadway version...
This is a very practical solution of the educational problem of your young blades. If they must see La Bella Rand, it's cheaper to pay a boy's tuition at Harvard for four years than to pay the check if he goes to a Broadway night club...