Word: blessings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editorial interpretations. But Hear It Now also has oral "columns" and features. Red Barber talks on sports (Pittsburgh's General Manager Branch Rickey urged the nation to keep its morale high with baseball); drama is covered by Comic Abe Burrows (he didn't like the Broadway revue Bless You All-see THEATER); press by Don Hollenbeck (he disapproved the newspapers' handling of the Truman-Hume correspondence); and movies by Bill Leonard (a vote for Born Yesterday; a vote against Red Skelton's Watch the Birdie). Hear It Now ends with a four-to ten-minute "closeup...
...Bless You All (music & lyrics by Harold Rome; sketches by Arnold Auerbach; produced by Herman Levin and Oliver Smith) is sometimes pleasant but never for long. Virtually everyone connected with it has more to boast of than the show itself. It's brightly colored but badly tended; the whole thing needs weeding, even the better things need watering. It looks about as a Broadway revue should look-perhaps in New Haven-three weeks before it opens on Broadway...
With Oliver Smith sets, Miles White costumes and some superior showgirls, Bless You All is sleek and satiny to the eye. But if that adds to the charm, it accentuates the mediocrity: it denies Bless You All the licensed bonhomie and sloppiness of an intimate revue. Even Negro Singer Pearl Bailey's enormous natural charm is put in double jeopardy by her wearing a flossy evening dress while struggling with flat material...
Only three new musicals have managed to make their Broadway goals. A fourth, Out of this World, opens Thursday, after an extended stay in Boston. Bless You All, another probable hit, opens the same...
...favorites, South Pacific, Gentlemen Prefer Bionds and Kiss Me Kate are still around, now at almost popular prices. Bless You All with Jules Munshin, Pearl Bailey, Mary McCarty and Valerie Bettis is sure to be a hit with many of the Call Me Mister group included among its credits. Tickets may still be available at box office for some part of the vacation...