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Earl Carroll Vanities, eleventh edition, is probably much the same show that the first edition was, or the fifth. But it seems infinitely duller. Carroll still has an eye for good-looking girls, but gone is all sense of showmanship, glitter, pace. An interminably long revue, and a slave to routine, the new Vanities rotates a song number, a ham comedian act and a leg parade all evening, like crops...
Despite the efforts of Buster Keaton and the Keystone Cops, who provide some uproarious sequences, "Hollywood Cavalcade" belongs to the great middle class. There is entirely too much of Don Ameche, and too little of Hollywood. No impression is created of the glitter town's lusty early years. In effect it resolves into a Don Ameche Cavaleade, the story of a brilliant but erratic director of the old silent days who bombasts his way through many years of happiness and stark tragedy, and in the end manages to get Alice Faye and some gray hairs. Miss Faye, surprisingly effective...
Just ahead is the festive glitter of the Christmas vacation, but hanging heavy over that are the dark clouds of Judgment Time. And so--particularly among Freshmen--there are beginning to appear the usual cases of pre-exam intellectual indigestion. Sometimes this is the result of a real hazy indetermination as to what the first semester was all about; among Freshmen more often it is a psychopathic feat that Harvard is, after all, a very hard place, too hard to get through without special medicine...
Chopin: Waltzes (Edward Kilenyi; Columbia: 10 sides). Pianist Kilenyi makes all 14 of Chopin's familiar waltzes glitter like cut steel...
...Copley this week Boston's indefatigable stock company has given us s chance to see the play just as Shaw wrote it, stripped of the glitter of Leslie Howard's virtuoso film performance. The result is an interesting commentary on the claim Shaw makes of being a great playwright. While the main elements of the plot will always be good theatre, there is more than an indication that the social satire he weaves into his plays will have to be freely adapted for every succeeding decade. And yet, even if Shakespeare played straight straight may be timeless, Shaw...