Word: cupidities
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...young girl (Polly Bergen) who, after becoming engaged to a prim young tycoon (John Dall), constantly gets high on champagne and then begins peeling off her clothes. Her worried beau calls in his psychoanalyst bachelor uncle (Donald Cook). Treatments reveal that the girl wants the analyst himself as Cupid to her psyche. Since, in romantic comedies of the '50s, young girls may marry men in their 40s, all is well. Champagne Complex is that very tough undertaking-a play with but three characters and one situation. Despite amusing lines, funny moments, and more champagne drinking than in any stage...
...Cupid? Near the end of the morning session, the committee got into a snarl that was to tie it up for the rest of the day. Describing a telephone call he got last Nov. 7 from McCarthy, Stevens said: "Now in that conversation Senator McCarthy said that one of the few things he had trouble with Mr. Cohn about was Dave Schine. He said that 'Roy thinks that Dave ought to be a general and operate from a penthouse on the Waldorf-Astoria' or words to that effect. Senator McCarthy then said that he thought a few weekends...
...music of King Arthur is fortunately divided among many characters, so that no single individual bears the vocal burden. The singers performed with spirit and clean diction, but after all, Purcell is not Arthur Sullivan and some voices sounded uncomfortably strained, However, Elizabeth Kalkhurst sang with beautiful tone as Cupid, while two little boys--Michael DeBruyn and Richard Wulf--stopped the show with their shepherds' ditty...
...Cupid's Arrow. In New Orleans, Mrs. James C. Ragas received a shiny red valentine from a masked messenger at the door, turned over $73 after she read the inscription: "This is a stickup. Don't make any funny noises. All I want is the money...
...while writing this fantasy of three warm-hearted convicts at Cayenne. But it takes more than a running gag or even a moderate number of good lines, to make a comedy consistently entertaining. Rather than the authors, it is pudgy Walter Slezak in the role of a combination convict, Cupid, and J. P. Morgan, who holds the play's biggest investment in laughs. To him belongs much of the credit for a year's success on Broadway...