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...very well, countered Tory M.P. Sir John Hobson, "if all the jury were doing was objectively solving an intellectual problem. But it has a much more important function, that of applying its subjective judgment to the witnesses who appear before it. Each one of the twelve jurors must consider how far one or other of all those witnesses are or are not to be believed...
WALKING HAPPY has bounce, zing, and Wisdom-Norman that is. The musical adaptation of H. G. Brighouse's Hobson's Choice tells of a shoemaker reluctantly pulled up by the bootstraps and the determination of a self-appointed fiancee. While the music ho-hums along, Danny Daniels' dashing choreography keeps the show high-kicking...
...petty -- seems particularly force. "In the second Hiss trial," writes Zeligs, "Chambers . . . testified that Richard [his brother] had died on September 19, 1926. Whether Chambers knew it or not (and it is likely that he did), September 19, 1926 was the birth date of Alger Hiss's stepson. Timothy Hobson (an easy slip away from September 9, 1926, the actual date of Richard's death)." Zeligs attempts to tie this error into a chain of meaningful mistakes on Chambers' part...
WALKING HAPPY is the musical version of H. G. Brighouse's near-classic, Hobson's Choice, introducing British Musicomedian Norman Wisdom to Broadway audiences, and a most entertaining acquaintance he is. While the score is pleasantly forgettable, Danny Daniels' choreography is fresh and memorable...
WALKING HAPPY, a low-voltage musical based on Hobson's Choice, is switched on brightly by British Comedian Norman Wisdom. Louise Troy is his ever-loving, ever-perfect foil, and Danny Daniels' choreography makes it all jolly good...