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Arms and the Girl (book by Herbert & Dorothy Fields & Rouben Mamoulian; music by Morton Gould; lyrics by Dorothy Fields; produced by the Theatre Guild in association with Anthony Brady Farrell) can thank its stars that they are its stars. For Broadway's Nanette Fabray and the Continent's Georges Guetary, together with Singing Comedienne Pearl Bailey, have the charm and personality to make Arms and the Girl a good deal better evening than it is a show...
With her looks, voice, sense of fun and a kind of invincible girlishness, Actress Fabray not only reflects what is bright in the heroine's role, but also slides over what might well be embarrassing. Greek-Parisian Actor Guétary, cast as a Hessian officer who joins the Americans and wins the girl, is in the approved style of European-operetta tenors, with both comic and romantic virtues and a good schmalzy voice...
Bundling is the subject of "The Pursuit of Happiness," by Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall, and it is on this play that "Arms and the Girl" is based. The new product has a rowdy, bumptious book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields and Rouben Mamoulian. It calls on Nannette Fabray to play a girl who tries to win the American Revolution singlehanded, but succeeds only in causing complete confusion. Her mission brings her to make clever use of her bed in times of crisis--with and without a large, saw-toothed "bundling board." Miss Fabray has plenty of assurance and ability...
...current season," were handed out for the third year. The little silver medallions went to Rex Harrison (Anne of the Thousand Days) and Martita Hunt (The Madwoman of Chaittot) for dramatic acting; Arthur Miller for writing Death of a Salesman, and Ray Bolger (Where's Charley?) and Nanette Fabray (Love Life) for their musicomedy performances...
...show has its very real assets: Nanette Fabray who, without losing one whit of her looks, keeps gaining in versatility and charm; and Ray Middleton, who has both voice and personality. It has some admirably lively and stylish Michael Kidd dances. It has one of Kurt Weill's most attractive scores, ranging from satiric little ditties like Progress to the full-throated tunefulness of Green-Up Time...