Word: fella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that always means trouble. Says the voice: "Incidentally, I'll be in town next week, and the only thing the missus and I want to see is My Fair Lady." If the show is not My Fair Lady, sold out until April, then it is The Most Happy Fella, currently sold out for five or six weeks, or Damn Yankees, which after a year and a half on Broadway still sells out nightly. Such phone calls as these have led to one of the last great black markets in the U.S.a ticket market operated by scalpers and fostered...
Last week, as the 1957 Broadway season began picking up steam, Manhattan's scalpers never had it so good. Not only was My Fair Lady still going strong and bringing at least $60 a pair for tickets v. $26 a pair for The Most Happy Fella and $20 for Damn Yankees, but a whole series of surefire new hits were on the way. Opening next week, Auntie Mame, starring Rosalind Russell, has a million-dollar advance sale, is virtually sold out through March. Bells Are Ringing, with Judy Holliday, has rave out-of-town notices...
Since it focuses more on predudices than people, the film's handling of the relations between the characters is often clumsy. The people are so explicit with each other, especially at the start, that their conversation sounds more like exposition: "Why isn't he a regular fella, Bill?" "He certainly isn't a chip off the old block, Herb." Tom Lee's reputation as an "off-horse, not a regular guy" is established at once--crudely, with dialogue that is blatantly expository. His schoolmates don't speak like human beings, not even like unkind human beings...
...situation comedies are less successful. Joe and Mabel (Tues. 9 p.m., E.D.T.) recounts the tribulations of a Brooklyn taxicab driver and his girl ("He's the sweetest fella a girl ever went to Florida without"), labors through improbable incidents and even less likely dialogue. The Charlie Farrell Show (Mon. 9 p.m., E.D.T.) takes place at the former screen star's plush Palm Springs Racquet Club; even in that glamorous setting it is corny and witless...
...these two recordings was Columbia's new President Goddard Lieberson (TIME, Oct. u, 1954). Sitting behind the control-room glass in cotton jersey and slacks, he rolled in his chair, clutched his brow, his breast, his colleagues' arms, while demanding one take after another. His problem with Fella was simplified by the fact that the nearly continual music supplied almost all the required atmosphere, from the rowdy, Italianate folk-type songs to the entr'acte hit, Standing on the Corner, to the show's one deeply felt song, Warm All Over. Even so, there...