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...Cupid, who does just as good business in city parks as he does in a haymow, smiled all over his face last week. New York City reported that marriage licenses were going boom. In the first half of 1941 the city issued 38,918 permits to marry-10,015 more than in the first half of 1940. If the boom zooms, 1941 will be New York City's most nuptial year in history, bigger even than 1917, which turned in 76,149 legal weddings...
License officials said it was Cupid's soldier clothes. As in 1917, young men hurriedly mumbled their marriage vows before Selective Service caught them-not to avoid serving in the Army, but to sandwich in a brief honeymoon before they went off alone to camp. On the day after graduation day at West Point, chaplains were busy from 9:30 a.m. until dusk, married 26 second lieutenants with the ink barely dry on their commissions...
...highlights of the show is Johnny Bunker's rendition of "Love Comes Easy to Me." Another of the female leads, Dick Whittemore, as "Stinky" sings what may well prove the best tune in the show, "You're My Big Idea." Bill Appel, as "Cupid," George Kuhn as "Lawyer Youtch," and Lee Foster as "Ellen" round out a humorous cast, while Charlie Morin and Lew Vorley stand out in the chorus...
...elaborate de capo arias which alternate with stretches of dreary dialogue. And in passages like Adonis' death scene, he rises into the front ranks of composers. For musical humor and simplicity, listen also to the duet of Venus and Adonis beginning "Adonis will not hunt today," and to Cupid's spelling lesson in the second...
Nancy Waite sang the part of Venus last night with great dignity and assurance and with a beautifully pure, cultivated voice. John Darr played Adonis capably; Miriam Silverman played the role of Cupid with much verve. The orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Holmes and assisted at the harpsichord by Claude Chiasson, performed valiantly throughout, and the music, characteristically Restoration in its use of dissonance and minor modulations, came out excellently. Lastly the dances designed by Miss Katherine Schroeder and executed by the Radcliffe Ballet, lent a colorful and decorative setting to the performance...