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...home in Kansas, finds herself in the Technicolor land of Oz. Homesick, she goes in search of the Wizard of Oz to ask him how to get back to Kansas. Along the way she meets a Straw Man (Ray Bolger), a Tin Woodman (Jack Haley), a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr). They too want to see the Wizard. The Straw Man seeks a brain, the Woodman a heart, the Cowardly Lion, courage...
...they desire. No children's tale is Hollywood's Wizard of Oz. Lavish in sets, adult in humor, it is a Broadway spectacle translated into make-believe. Most of its entertainment comes from the polished work (aided by Jack Dawn's expert makeup) of seasoned Troupers Lahr, Bolger and Haley...
...businessman, only stuffy and always noble Herbert Marshall is available to reap the profits. It was a sad mistake for the producers to import Mr. Marshall from the dignity of his Paris apartment to the wild charms of music-hall life; also sad is the change forced on Bert Lahr, who has been transported from his usual garden of foolery to the role of Zaza's faithful partner. Even the erratic foibles of Helen Westley fail to inject a real sparkle into the picture. With a more personable male lead, and a plot just a bit more complicated than...
...Corner" gives audiences at the University Theatre eighty minutes of diverting plot and catchy songs, of which the catchiest is "I Like to Walk in the Rain." Amanda Duff enables Charles Farrell to make a dignified come-back, with the nimble feet of Bill Robinson and the Bert Lahr baritone helping things out. "Arrest Bulldog Drummond" is a satisfactory companion piece...
...current version of Zaza, directed by George Cukor, acted by Claudette Colbert and Herbert Marshall, and equipped with dialogue consisting principally of "Ah, zut!" conforms to tradition so perfectly that, presumably from force of long habit, censors even objected to the cancan dances. Climactic shot: Comedian Bert Lahr, playing a straight role for the first time in his career, as Zaza's vaudeville partner, conveying the scandalous news that he has seen her lover drinking chocolate with a lady not his mistress...