Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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YOUR REVIEW OF CARL SANDBURG'S NEW LINCOLN BIOGRAPHY IS GORGEOUS AND SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING IN EVERY SCHOOL IN THE LAND. SANDBURG RICHLY DESERVES THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE FROM THE SWEDISH ACADEMY...
...fanfare was a trifle excessive. Many a musical has been fresher, cleverer, more original; several Cole Porter shows have had wittier lyrics, catchier tunes. But as a splendiferous version of regulation musicomedy Du Barry Was a Lady is all there. Its costumes are gorgeous, its goings-on boisterous. Its wit is almost nil, but its wisecracks are raw as a cannibal sandwich, suggestive as a red light burning in the hall. Bert Lahr is at his best-which is good enough. Ethel Merman is at her best -which is tops...
...trouble is that Mr. Todd doesn't seem to have the courage of his convictions. For instance, after whooping up the "Three Little Maids" red hot out of a ladies' seminary with a gorgeous syncopated score and a crew of jitterbugs in the best traditions of Harlem's Savoy, if not the London Savoy, he promptly repents his sins and returns to the original G. & S. script for a while. Heaven forbid that any criticism should be smeared on the original, but it did sound pretty dull. It's too bad that Mr. Todd couldn't bury his conscience deep...
...rest of the time coyly failing to get it out again. The story concerns one Phil Dolan 3rd (Eddie Albert), called Junior, who drops out as the juvenile in a hoofing act to write the Great American Ballet. He meets a Russian ballet troupe, falls in love with its gorgeous premiere danseuse (Zorina). When timid Junior, pinch-hitting as a black slave in the Russian ballet, gets scared and runs wild, critics rave at the new humorous note, and its "angel" orders the shocked maestro (Alan Hale) to produce Junior's U. S. ballet, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue...
Acting honors, such as they are, must go to the lesser members of the cast. A girl named Carol Bruce deserves a far better part than she has, and Tom Ewell, late of "Brother Rat," is easily the best man on the stage. The chorus is gorgeous to look at, and the girls do more than well by Al White, Jr.'s rather unimaginative routines. Harry Horner's sets are excellent, but they meet strong antagonists in Billi Livingston's atrocious costumes...