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...leave from Manhattan's locally famed "18 Club," where for some years they have assisted Comedian Jack White in making that institution a sort of petit palais of honky-tonk humor and personal insult. Mr. Porter has worked with funny men before (Victor Moore, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr). But never with any so fundamentally low-down funny as these. In Panama Hattie one of them observes to his pal Ragland: "You make more cheap dolls than they do in Japan." They also gang up on a torso-rolling lady of the cast with the suggestion: "When you get that...
...smashing successes in two years is the record Buddy DeSylva has compiled on the musical comedy stage. First, in "Stars in Your Eyes," he had the irrepressible combination of Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante to put across some of Cole Porter's best songs. Last year Bert Lahr's contortions replaced Durante's wheezings and the resultant "DuBarry Was a Lady" was as much a hit as its predecessor. And now the Shubert stage has DeSylva's latest offering, with Miss Merman the lone star, surrounded by a cordon of well-known and capable performers drawn from the stage, screen...
...Barry Was a Lady. Regulation musicomedy at its rawest and most resplendent, with Bert Lahr and Ethel Merman at their brightest and best (TIME...
...Barry Was a Lady. Regulation musicomedy at its rawest and most resplendent, with Bert Lahr and Ethel Merman at their brightest and best (TIME...
Married. Comic Bert Lahr, 44; and former Showgirl Mildred Schroeder Robinson, 26; both for the second time; in Elkton...