Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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OPENED LAST NIGHT: At the Zlegfield, Charles Lederer's "Kismet", with music by Aleksandr Borodin and starring Alfred Drake, Joan Diener, Doretts Morrow, Henry Calvin, and Glenn Burris. For the benefit of theatre-goers deprived of critleal manna, the CRIMSON reprints a review of the musical as it appeared during the Boston try-out in late October. Our critic can not, of course, evaluate subscquent changes in the script or quality of the production...
...Drake's buoyancy very well. Henry Calvin plays the Wazir of Police with a cheerful ghoulishness reminiscent of Fan court's Mikado. In "Was I Wazir," with an accompaniment wesely lifted from Wonderful Town rather than in Central Asia, Calvin has one of the best bits in the show. Joan diener, as the Wazir's errant wife, is sultry and sarcastic, with a figure to please even the most myopic in the second balcony. With comic relish, she joins Drake in the slaughter of a little horrer called "Oasis of Delightful Imaginings." ("The breeze that cools the dunes there...
...Kismet", the charles Lederer musical, opened last night at the Ziegfield with Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow, and Joan Diener. The opinion of the local man is elsewhere on the page...
...somewhat sloppy Valentina is Rodgers and Hammerstein's eulogy of the theatre, "Me and Juliet." The show has its hits, but it also has songs like "The Big, Black Giant," which can only detract from the composers' reputation. Joan McCracken makes the whole business worth the splashy effect...
Radcliffe has built an effective sales team with a one-two punch. The "one" is publicity director Joan Projansky '49, the "two" is dean of college relations Mildred P. Sherman '21. Last winter and spring, Miss Sherman invaded the Wild West preceded by a carefully laid barrage of releases from the publicity office...