Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workmanlike Rodgers score, with one schmalzy tune, No Other Love, and such lively show music as It's Me and Keep It Gay. There is an agreeable cast, gaily paced by George Abbott, gaily dressed by Irene Sharaff. There are some good Bob Alton dances, and Joan McCracken not only steps up the dancing but notably brightens the show. And Jo Mielziners "problem" sets are fascinatingly expert...
Honegger: Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher (Vera Zorina as Jeanne: Philadelphia Orchestra, soloists and choirs conducted by Eugene Ormandy; Columbia. 2 LPs). The burning of St. Joan, told in a magnificent mishmash of symbolism, poetry and high drama. Honegger's score contains movements of surpassing beauty, others of sheerest musical exhibitionism. A brilliant performance...
Durable Cinemactress Joan Crawford, doing her first song & dance role in 13 years in MGM's Technicolored Torch Song, struck a barstool pose with her French poodle to give shapely proof that the famed Crawford legs are still worth the price of admission...
...manager. As her suitors, Mark Dawson and Bill Hayes each have powerful stage voices but too little to do with them; the shifts between the backstage plot and the on stage musical are so frequent that none of the principals is seen often enough. This is especially true of Joan McCracken, pixie-faced little dancer whose number, "It's Me," is the show's comic high point. Helena Scott, Juliet in the sub-musical, has a fine, near operatic voice; and like all the leads, she projects each word of the lyrics distinctly...
...These people must be taught a lesson," said her host. "That damned Land League is ruining the country." When she asked her father about it, he said: "The people have a right to the land." Later, in France, someone asked her: "Why don't you free Ireland as Joan of Arc freed France?" It was like a mandate...