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...Chocolate Soldier (music by Oscar Straus; book by Rudolph Bernauer & Leopold Jacobson, "Americanized" by Stanislaus Stange and revised by Guy Bolton; produced by J. H. Del Bondio & Hans Bartsch) has tunes that can still send you out of the theater whistling. After almost 40 years, they have an Old World dash and melodiousness; even My Hero is not too much the worse for a thousand ship's bands and restaurant fiddlers...
Suds in Your Eye (adapted by Jack Kirkland from Mary Lasswell's novel; produced by Katherine Brown and J. H. Del Bondio) chronicles the capers of three beer-befuddled old girls in a San Diego junk yard. Mistress of the junk pile is a tough-but-tender Irish widow (Jane Darwell). Her guests are a lorgnetted, half-tetched old maid (Brenda Forbes) and a you-lead-I'll-follow neighbor woman. Light of heart and low in funds, the three of them racket about, play Cupid, take up Spanish, wrangle with the tax collector...
Murder Without Crime (by J. Lee Thompson; produced by Del Bondio, Windust & Weatherly) starts off nicely when a young lady is stabbed with a dagger. But it winds up sadly, strangled by its own wordiness...
Great Lady (produced by Dwight Deere Wiman & J. H. Del Bondio). Only the most rabid Manhattan sightseers have toiled uptown to inspect the handsome, aged Jumel Mansion. Great Lady is a "biography with music'' of the mansion's former chatelaine, high-stepping Madame Eliza Jumel. From being put in the stocks for misbehaving in Providence, R. I., Eliza went on to dally with a French cavalier, marry a French businessman, almost whisk Napoleon to the U. S. after Waterloo, curtsy before Louis XVIII of France and make a second marriage, late in life, with Aaron Burr...
...Ourselves (by E. M. Delafield; J. H. del Bondio & Joshua Logan, producers). Joshua Logan, a corpulent young man with more brains than money, first smelled greasepaint as a comedian with the Princeton Triangle Club a few years ago. Since then he has been doing bit parts and managerial work on Broadway. To See Ourselves is the first show he has produced and directed. It is also the U. S. theatrical premiére of Author E. M. Delafield (Elizabeth M. Dashwood), a capable, Grade B English literary lady (Diary of a Provincial Lady, The Provincial Lady in America), Both...