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DAMES AT SEA is a delightful spoof of the movie musicals of the 1930s. The engaging cast of six features Bernadette Peters as Ruby, the hoofer who "taps her way to stardom" against all odds...
...Tracy did make his "successful start" in newsman roles in The Front Page on Broadway in 1928 [Oct. 25]. His acting career actually began two years earlier, in the Jed Harris production of Broadway, playing the hoofer in that show and making an even bigger hit than he did as Hildy Johnson in the Hecht-MacArthur show. "Look at the personality I got" became a byword in the '20s, and he was already a made man by the time the other show came in. Earlier, with Charlie Bickford, just before Broadway, he played a minor part in Glory Hallelujah...
Bumps & Grinds. Although dated for today's audience-which Balanchine helped educate-Slaughter was a pioneer work that put ballet on Broadway permanently. With high-fidelity hauteur, Suzanne Farrell stormed tantalizingly through the bumps and grinds of the striptease girl, ably partnered by Arthur Mitchell as her jealous hoofer boy friend. The dance was all show-biz flash, far removed from the cool twelve-tone Balanchine ballets in which Farrell has frequently starred...
...groom; a daughter guiltily registering her arthritic father in a home. A visit to Continental spas showed elderly people desperately trying" to reverse the clock by means of surrealistic exercise machines and lamb-gland injections. But perhaps the most poignant was the closing scene -a tottering music-hall hoofer, reduced to playing a pub, tearfully singing When I Grow Too Old to Dream...
...could dispute it? Hoofer Hope seemed to be going nowhere. At one desperate point, he took an ad in Variety: LES HOPE AVAILABLE. SONGS...