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Other shows, not quite so prosperous, are moving to Manhattan with equal enthusiasm. Among the more promising: ¶ Fiorello!, with newcomer Tom Bosley an accurate re-creation of New York's "Little Flower" La Guardia, is filled with warmth, schmalz and a lively choreography that amounts to expertly organized pandemonium. Directed by George Abbott, boasting a bouncy score (by Jerry Bock) and urbane lyrics (by Sheldon Harnick), Fiorello! moves from Manhattan's garment district to Washington's Capitol Hill to New York's City Hall at a breathless pace. Crowed the Philadelphia Inquirer: "The new champion...
...Bosley Crowther of the Times is his guide. If Bosley says it's trash, he may easily pass it up. Or if he has to use it (and he admits he has to use a lot of pure crocks), he'll play it in the Sunday-to-Tuesday slot...
...this pattern of selling sex and violence for their own worth is characteristic of the modern European cinema, as Bosley Crowther suggested in the Times, one hopes that a change in the wind will be shortly forthcoming...
...Bosley is genial as the psychiatrist, who believes that "we all have great unconscious wisdom." Joan Croydon repeats her warm Broadway interpretation of the priest's housekeeper. Adele Thane makes the most of Mrs. Potter's one scene. And Maureen Hurley brings the right amount of neuroticism to the part of Sara. Edmund Roney and Lawrence Spector give capable support as the prim banker and the easy-going roommate...
Melville Cooper, Jack Hollander and Guy Sorel have the proper slickness for the evil president, prospector and baron. The large number of supporting roles provide several fine vignettes: Tom Bosley does fine double duty as the double-talking broker and the sad, flower-loving sewer man; Ned Murphy actually plays the guitar as the street-singer who knows only the first two lines of his song; and Lance Cunard is a comic Dr. Jadin, who believes that "as the foot goes, so goes...