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...typical Maxwell performance one night last week began with a fast, explosive samba, went on to a sentimental arrangement of Kurt Weill's September Song and a plunky version of I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover. The final numbers: a medley of Gershwin tunes and a swing arrangement of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. Says Maxwell: "I play Liszt as I think Liszt would play if he were alive today." The supper-club crowd hushed down to devoted silence for Maxwell's 20-minute performance, even when their glasses stood empty...
Less remembered are the covers that worked out as four-leaf clovers for the people they featured. Among the 17 sport covers since World WarII, 12 seem to have brought at least as much good luck...
...Dolls belongs with the few musicals in any decade that can beam rather than swear at their librettos. Helped immensely at the source by Damon Runyon and in the staging by George S. Kaufman, the Jo Swerling-Abe Burrows book offers gags that don't seem like pressed four-leaf clovers, a lingo full of amusing genteelisms, humor that is disarming, good humor that is pervasive. Guys and Dolls would be virtually a model of its type if it were less insistent, or more convincing, about love...
That love works better than a four-leaf clover...
Some people go for horseshoes, others four-leaf clovers and rabbitt paws, but after Saturday the Crimson soccer team probably will put its trust in rule books. Two penalty kicks gave the Varsity soccer team its sixth victory of the fall season as Princeton fell victim 2 to 1 Saturday on the Business School Field...