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...still tingling with a rediscovery of a bygone Fourth of July-a time when the franks were fat and hot and the firecrackers spat showers of sparks and the drum major's spinning baton flashed in the sun, and the grass in the park felt as soft as corn silk underfoot. Since opening night last Dec. 19, every audience has reacted in this same wholehearted way to The Music Man, Broadway's biggest musical...
Plot for a Graveyard. Some smart Broadway money was betting that Music Man would fall flat on its corn husks when it opened at the Majestic Theater. By Broadway standards, it is simpleminded and unsophisticated. It is also warmhearted, brilliantly performed and a lot of fun. The Music Man is Professor Harold Hill, a glib-tongued, fast-footed, woman-chasing rascal of a traveling salesman from Gary, Ind., who bursts into staid River City, charms a frozen-faced populace into digging into their cookie jars and mattresses to buy instruments and uniforms for a boys' marching band that will...
Mothers of River City! Watch for the telltale signs of corruption. The moment your son leaves the house does he re-buckle his knickerbockers below the knee? Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger? A dime novel hidden in the corn crib? Is he memorizing jokes out of Capt. Billy's "Whiz Bang"? Are certain words creeping into his conversation? Words like "swell" and "so's your old man"? If so, my friends-ya got Trouble...
...HARVEST will equal last year's record despite crop controls, will create bigger stockpiles and raise Government farm costs. Wheat and soybean production will grow to new high, though cotton and corn will drop...
...chick, might be someone like Jazz Singer Billie Holiday. Actually, the resemblances are not important. This is a standard jazz story and, beyond that, basically the standard intellectual's novel about the artist in the U.S. who is somehow made to feel that he is alien corn-or horn. That Edgar Pool is a Negro has little to do with it. Implicit in the book is the notion that Jazzman Pool died the death of a poet who lived in a country that does not give much houseroom to poetry. Author Holmes comes no closer to proving this case...