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Follow the Girls (book by Guy Bolton and Eddie Davis; lyrics & music by Dan Shapiro, Milton Pascal and Phil Charig; produced by Dave Wolper) has a number of virtues and two faults-its music and its book. Since the two mean hardly less to musicomedy than mountains and lakes mean to Switzerland, Follow the Girls falls short of perfection. But for the unchoosy pleasure-seekers and visiting firemen who swarm over Broadway, it should nicely fill the bill. It spills over with good humor. It boasts a lot of good people-likably tough Singer Gertrude Niesen, likably loony Comic Jackie...
WHAT BECAME OF ANNA BOLTON?-Louis Bromfield-Harper...
Bromfield unveils Anna Bolton, daughter of an Ohio scrubwoman, as a glittering creature of wealth in Neville Chamberlain's London. He takes her from this lavishly mad prewar society, spots her at the Ritz in Paris while France is falling, has her strafed in her Rolls-Royce in a roadful of refugees, finally sets her down in Unoccupied France to run a village canteen, care for a motherless baby, marry a member of the underground. By this process she "grows a soul." Caldwell reintroduces a family she has written about before, the Bouchards, who are still the blackest-hearted...
Ohio's Frances P. Bolton reasoned: "I cannot believe that the people of this country will want to do anything less for themselves and the future than to play a vital, living, vivid part in this, our first venture into international responsibility...
Jackpot (book by Guy Bolton, Sidney Sheldon & Ben Roberts; music & lyrics by Vernon Duke & Howard Dietz; produced by Vinton Freedley) is a large-scale musical that ran to telephone figures and adds up to zero. Considering how many smart people are involved in it, Jackpot seems almost like a conspiracy of dullness...