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...Prince Charles is atop Christine Keeler, and he's riding her hard," rasped the public address system. The crowd cheered. This Christine Keeler was a polo pony, of course, lent to the Prince of Wales for a few chukkers with the Nairobi Polo Club on his tour of Kenya with Sister Princess Anne. Later, Charles bestowed his first accolade. With the traditional ceremonial sword of the Princes of Wales he dubbed William Duffus, President of the Appeal Court of East Africa, on both shoulders, pronouncing him "Sir William," and motioned him to rise. Then, the ceremony of knighthood being...
Shorts? Absolutely. And not just the ordinary old ho-hum sportswear type, but a brand-new outrageous variety, cut higher, tighter and altogether skimpier than anything Ruby Keeler ever kicked in (see THE THEATER). No longer fashioned of sturdy standards like denim and broadcloth, the current crop is made of flashier stuff-mink and monkey fur, silk and satin, calfskin, chiffon and cut velvet. The accepted generic term, hot pants, lends the style the leering inference of an adolescent joke. But short shorts are no joke; they are serious business, and women in major European and U.S. cities are currently...
That is not what No, No Nanette does, but nostalgia is the impetus of the evening. Nostalgia is rampant in the presence of Ruby Keeler, 60, who emerges as a warmly appealing personality and dances with a valiant nimbleness. Nostalgia propels the tap-Rockette sequences of the Busby Berkeley chorus, with its mass assembly-line dance routines supervised by the 75-year...
...himself. Even though No, No Nanette dates from 1925, the show more properly marks a reunion between Keeler and Berkeley, who in the early Depression era collaborated on such Warner Bros, extravaganzas as 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade and a spate of other Late Late Show favorites. Ruby has spent 30 retirement years in the wings, most of the time happily married to an industrial builder. But the roar of the greasepaint has drawn her irresistibly back to Broadway, where she started her career at the age of 13 in the chorus of a musical called...
...dances. The central figure is a near-millionaire Bible publisher, whom Jack Gilford plays with gullible charm. Gilford is a kind of platonic sucker who has been gilding the palms of three avaricious flappers without any amorous return on his investment. He doesn't want his wife (Keeler) to find out about it, and he orders his lawyer (Bobby Van) to buy and bargain his way out of the mess. It all adds up to a kind of microminiature Feydeau farce set in Atlantic City...