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...Face It! (book by Herbert & Dorothy Fields; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Vinton Freedley) is the first musical of the season to stir the critics to half-hysterical admiration. The show, a good routine musical, didn't fully rate it, but its headliner, mop-haired, magic-tongued Danny Kaye, did. Last season, in Lady in the Dark, he was almost brand-new to Broadway, but he would have stolen the show from any one less than Gertrude Lawrence. In Let's Face It! (for which he up & quit Lady) he rides off with the show...
When two big names like Vinton Freedley and Cole Porter appear on the same showbill, people expect more than just a good show; they crowd to see one of the season's "hits." With a little more cutting and polishing "Let's Face It" should be one of the season's hits, but it is more than the work of Messrs. Freedley and Porter which promises to make it so. Admitting that the lines, music, casting and chorus work are all good, it's the punch of a young lad named Danny Kaye which furnishes most of the "hitting...
...cast. Eve Arden does a creditable job of cracking lines and is very definitely in place all through the show. Mary Walsh is better than good as Jerry's finance, and stands out singing "Jerry, My Soldier Boy." Most of the other supporters are adequate; in fact, Mr. Freedley seems to have had so much talent on hand that he has had to go to discordant lengths to work in a pair of good dancers, whose dances simply don't fit. Subtraction of such superfluities will make "Let's Face It" much easier to face...
...years ago Vinton Freedley meddled with such an idea when he tried to dramatize "Young Man With a Horn" starring Burgess Meredith. Eddie Condon and various other top-ranking men were actually signed up, but after a few weeks the pristine enthusiasm over the idea faded and no more was heard of the matter. But apart from the brief appearance of Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman in a minor extravaganza entitled "Swingin' the Dream," which caught at best a fleeting glimpse of Broadway, jazz and its exponents have not since been given a chance to ennoble the buskin'd stage...
...opening of the clubhouse is slated for the middle of next month. Invitations have already been sent to Vinton Freedley '14, and the cast of his new musical comedy, "Let's Face It", and there is talk of inviting the whole class of '45 partly as a good-will gesture and partly to test the strength of the new flooring