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SWEET CHARITY. In this musical, Gwen Verdon proves that she is still the dancer assolnta of the U.S. stage. Bob Fosse's choreography is wry and witty and winning, but the book, written by Neil Simon, is consistently stale, as if he had heard rather than written the gags...
Sweet Charity. Gwen Verdon is the dancer assoluta of the U.S. musical stage. She moves to the impulsive music of instinct as a child laughs and a dolphin leaps. She is Terpsichore's darling and yet fortune's foil. She is a wistful waif out of a Chaplin two-reeler, a Broadway gamin skipping along the harsh pavements of defeat with perky gallantry, one of nature's eternally winning losers. Verdon is verdant, and it is lucky that all is well with her, for all is not so well with her musical...
Fashion editors seem disinclined to take such sniping seriously. "The whole argument is absurd," shrugs Harper's Bazaar Fashion Director Gwen Randolph. "Sure, we get lots of complaints from designers, but we get lots of compliments too. Some complaints come from designers who are older and not with it. Actually, fashion photography today, insofar as photographers take clothes and try to exaggerate, enhance and dramatize, is no different than it was 25 years ago. The whole to-do is a lot of baloney...
...music as My Best Girl by Jerry (Hello, Dolly!) Herman; and Anya (nee Anastasia) is given voice with a score gleaned from themes by Rachmaninoff. Then there is a pair of transubstantiated movies: Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria will become Bob Fosse's Sweet Charity with Gwen Verdon. The Blue Angel, as Sugar City, relocates to New Orleans, with Walter Slezak and Lilo. The composer: Duke Ellington...
...DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Guest: Dancer Gwen Verdon...