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Died. Jack Buchanan, sixtyish, versatile British song-and-danceman, TV performer and London theater owner; of spinal arthritis; in London. Scottish-born Buchanan once taught Laurence Olivier how to twirl a cane and twinkle his feet, was a leading comic at 19, made his first of many Broadway appearances in Andre Chariot's Revue of 1924 (with Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence...
...merengue, long popular in the Dominican Republic and now a lively candidate for popularity on U.S. dance floors. The merengue (pronounced meh-rew-geh) has already caught on at Manhattan's mambo-mad Palladium, and has begun to spread to less hectic New York dance spots. Says Danceman Murray, currently spending two hours a day practicing merengue steps himself: "I am confident that the merengue will soon become more popular in this country than the mambo...
...With It? (Universal-International) is a cinemusical about a tent show. The show's supercarnival acts, which had a rich midway glamor on the Broadway stage, have only a cheap midway glare when filtered through the screen. But Song &-Danceman Donald O'Connor comes through brightly as a sort of low-glazed, hickory-cured Danny Kaye...
...Lady Detained (by Samuel Shipman & John B. Hymer; S. L. Latham, producer) offers Song-&-Danceman Oscar Shaw (Very Good Eddie, Flying High) in his first legitimate appearance, in which he is called upon to impersonate the leader of an impoverished gang of ex-bootleggers. An air-minded heiress (handsome Claudia Morgan) drops out of a fog into the mob's rural retreat. The lady is detained for ransom, and, as Playwrights Shipman & Hymer have one of their hoodlums say, she might easily have fallen into the hands of less humane snatchers who would have kept her in a cellar...
...servants and most of the amenities. When the play opens, he seems much less devoted to his charming family than to two pieces of bric-a-brac in the living room: a hideous crayon portrait of his day-laborer father and an oversized spittoon. The little comedy, which Song-&-Danceman Eddie Dowling chose for his first Broadway presentation in three years, shows how certain trivial experiences improve the character of Herbert Kalness. When the patrician parents of his daughter's Harvard fiancé dine at his house, his boorish conduct disgraces his family. He sneers openly at good breeding...