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Best Foot Forward (produced by George Abbott; book by John Cecil Holm; words and music by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane) skips tunefully along with a cast that is, for the most part, barely out of its nonage. But if the performers are short on years, they are pleasantly long on talent, and under the shrewd direction of Producer George Abbott, they see to it that Best Foot Forward never lets its title down...
...first show Producer Abbott and Playwright Holm have done together since Three Men on a Horse, Best Foot Forward gives every sign of being durable. Handsomely set up by Jo Mielziner, it is bolstered by some fast dance routines tapped together by Gene Kelly, lately the hoofing heel of Pal Joey. The whole show demonstrates once again George Abbott's peculiar knack of making innocence lively...
Best Swedish designs are characteristically for community projects. Examples: the Kvarnholmen cooperative industrial community, on an island outside Stock holm, with flour mills, shops, schools, managers' and workers' houses; school buildings like Paul Hedquist's clean-lined structure at Bromma {see cut) ; shrewdly angled, balconied, sun-catching apartment houses in crowded sections of Stockholm; an adroitly designed swimming pool and social center in the Vanadislunden residential section of Stockholm...
...backstroke, Eleanor Holm's spectacular figures have long been washed away. In Rotterdam two years ago, Holland's young Cor Kint set four world's backstroke records: 100 yards, 100 meters, 150 yards, 200 meters. Her record-breaking time for 100 yards is 1:05.1-4.7 sec. faster than the U.S. record set by glamorous Gloria Callen last spring...
...Anna Holm, Miss Crawford has borne her disfigurement since childhood, frightful to look at, she has turned crimnal to take revenge on a society which doesn't want her. Then she encounters a man who is not repelled by her ugliness-criminal aristocrat named Torsten Barring (Conrad Veidt...