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...further resemblance to its musical namesake ends with the opening curtain. Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields have taken a wornout family comedy theme and used it to glue together a formidable number of jokes about six, child psychology, and television. They have written a farcical Date with Judy, funnier than its television counterparts but a little pointless for two hours in the theatre...
...high spots of the very satisfying two hours belonged to Martin and Merman. Mary Martin was never funnier than in her one-woman (and one-dress) fashion review that dealt with all the fads from 1903 to yesterday. And, perched on stools, both Mary and Ethel whipped through a rapid-fire medley of some of the best pop songs ever written. Televiewers hoped they would not have to wait another 50 years for so good a show. But if they do, it will be worth waiting...
...Care If the Sun Don't Shine, San Domingo). Interesting bit players: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. For Comedian Hope, Scared Stiff must seem like very old stuff. It was called The Ghost Breakers in 1940, when Hope played the lead in a far funnier and scarier movie version of the old (1913) stage play...
...more than discreetly hilarious: Bea often couldn't be funnier, but most assuredly her material could...
...Faces of 1952 is a crisp, cheerfully intimate revue that should somehow be funnier. The most professional of Leonard Silurian's various New Faces, it looks trim and moves fast. It is full of sophisticated ideas to be sung or spoken; it exhibits a bunch of likable new faces, a few of which should catch the spotlight more & more. But the product is not quite up to the packaging. For all its expensive gloss, its Raoul Pene du Bois sets and John Murray Anderson staging, it never really bankrolls 'em in the aisles...