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Adapting Gigi from Colette's novel, Anita Loos has weighted a delicate story a bit too heavily with farce, and the cast scurries through the lines as though intent on catching the 10:35 out of town. Due perhaps to an over-familiarity with the script after a year on...

Author: By R.e. Oldenburg, | Title: Gigi | 2/27/1953 | See Source »

The poem concerns the pain experienced on losing close friends, transcribed to Mary's feelings at the crucifixion of her son. Alfred never dwells upon the morbid aspects of death, however. On occasion, he visits old women at a rest home in the area. "It's like a prison for...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: The Poet of People | 2/21/1953 | See Source »

With the same vigor and originality which marked Bernstein's score for On the Town, his music is a pleasant change from the trite insipidity of current show tunes. "Wrong Note Rag" piques the ear with delightful dissonance, and in "Pass That Football," a tribute to the well-paid college...

Author: By R. E. Oldenburg, | Title: Wonderful Town | 1/31/1953 | See Source »

Mark Stevens, as the husband, was little better than his colorless role since he has only a natural style and likable manner. But his lack of brilliance highlights Vicki Cummings' sparkle as a lady whose repute is rather ill. Her lines feature gems such as Mae West tossed off in...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Mid-Summer | 1/15/1953 | See Source »

Of course, during these sketches Miss Palmer is always the heroine. She is delightful mouthing lines modeled after Mclieve, Shakespeare, and Chekov, but she just cannot handle a Brooklynese dialect in the American scene; and frankly, I don't see how anyone could. Harrison, too, has no trouble filling brief...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: LOVE OF FOUR COLONELS | 1/9/1953 | See Source »

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