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Choreographer Michael Kidd has designed some charming and witty dance routines. Hotspots: a clever production number, kidding the Mickey Spillane type of literary hopheadiness; a moony little foxtrot through Central Park; a raucous hit of pedal jabberwocky by Astaire at a 42nd Street shoeshine stand...
These drawbacks out of the way-except that they never are for long-Can-Can whirls and foams. Jo Mielziner's sets of Montmartre rooftops, studios and dives are charmingly evocative, and Michael Kidd has worked up the best dances of the season. There is a fine, hair-dragging apache number, a legsome cancan, and an enchanting, Garden of Eden ballet spoof, full of flamingoes, frogs and inchworms, as well as Eve and the serpent. As Eve (and several other things), red-headed Gwen Verdon has a wonderfully fetching dance personality; as the Jezebel, Paris' blonde Lilo...
Thus far, the payoff has been encouraging. The latest Pine-Thomas epic, Caribbean, is now making 31% more money than average pictures on the market. Those perennial big-grossers, Abbott & Costello, recently released Abbott & Costello Meet Captain Kidd. Last week Hollywood studios had released, were filming or planning more than 20 sea pictures, ranging from documentaries (e.g., Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us) to history (e.-g., Nearer My God to Thee, a story of the Titanic). But most of them were just wet westerns-The Golden Hawk, City Beneath the Sea and Yankee Buccaneer...
...gouty arthritis, said Manhattan's Dr. Estes C. Kidd,. phenylbutazone has shown "remarkable effects," and appears to combine the virtues of colchicine and Benemid, the two best drugs up to now. For the whole range of joint disorders, said Dr. Cornelius Traeger, it is "the most potent non-narcotic analgesic we have...
...Thorns. In Detroit, Mrs. Raymond Kidd won a divorce after testifying that her husband tossed her into her mother's rosebush, told her: "Your mother can have you back...