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...Hazel Flagg (book by Ben Hecht; music & lyrics by Jule Styne and Bob Hillard) is generally cheerful, insistently lavish and notably loud. Based on Nothing Sacred, a satiric Ben Hecht movie of the '30s the story tells of a vast fraud: a young Vermont girl pretends to be dying of radium poisoning and yearns for lights and laughter at the end. Hazel Flagg stands forth a creature of breathtaking gallantry, reduces the city to wild and wet-eyed idolatry, inspires everything from prayers to parades...
...satire, Hecht's libretto is commonplace and even oafish; certainly Hazel Flagg uses a maximum of heavy artillery to inflict a minimum of wounds. Once again musicomedy, in the act of satirizing something else, has ended by satirizing itself-by pointing up its own excesses of color, blare, manpower and above all, length. Jule Styne's pounding music suggests a New York that never sleeps, and unconsciously gives the reason why Robert Alton's dances get to be relentlessly, unremittingly lively. If only there were less of everything in Hazel Flagg, it might...
...today's titanic tiff with D. C. D. Rogers Hahnsby's Rampaging Red-Eds. With only nine players left on his squad, Mack-U still voiced confidence last night. "We'll be like the old Gag-House Gang," he gurgled gleefully, "with such fleet-feet as rookie George Washington Flagg...
Since February 24 there have been four accidents at the Plympton intersection, two at the intersection of DeWolfe Street and Memorial Drive, and one at Flagg Street. During the period from February 24 to March 2 alone, three accidents occurred in the area, and since the beginning of April, there have been four more...
Major H in Minor Colors--James E Bacon, New Canaan, Conn.; Washington A. Flagg, Jr., Old Westbury, L. I.; Morris W. Wood, Jr., Ambler, Pa.; Charles W Ufford, Jr., Haverford...