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...This World (music & lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Dwight Taylor & Reginald Lawrence; produced by Saint Subber & Lemuel Ayers) is as festal and glittering to look at as a Christmas tree. But under the tree, precious few gifts are displayed. Often, while the eye feasts on Lemuel Ayers sets and costumes, the mind wanders and the spirits slump. The decor aside, nothing in Out of This World is even remotely out of the top drawer...
...important than dance steps, South Pacific will seem-as it may well be-a perfect union of film and footlights. For others, a musical play will have to rank a bit higher as drama than South Pacific, if the loss in dancing, décor, and musicomedy's festal airs is not to smack of larceny...
...does Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston perk up as a period piece; the festal splendors of the Jubilee, the starched manners of Boston, the suave elegances of Vienna get barely a nod; even the sets and costumes lack lure. The Waltz King's own music has been reduced to a minimum and revamped to no good end. Most of the tunes in Mr. Strauss are by Robert (Zwei Herzen im Drei-Viertel Takt) Stolz, and the best of them are not more than agreeable...
...City Stands. At first, it was not so bad. In the long food lines the citizens of Warsaw, "never noted for their friendliness,'' began to enjoy each other; and whenever, briefly, the shelling relaxed, the sidewalks bloomed with a dense, almost festal leisure...
...occasion being Marais's 100th broadcast, there were other festal features. Marais fans, invited to attend, came in such numbers that NBC had to put on the show in its new, copper-lined theater. The Consul of the Union of South Africa came and testified that the "liedjies" (little songs) of Josef Marais brought back to him the "breath of the veld...