Word: liltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whites one evening last week to hear a variety troupe one-nighting through the South with Negro Singer Nat "King" Cole featured. For the musky-voiced baritone, born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Montgomery, this was almost a home-town audience; he spiced Autumn Leaves with an extra lilt, then crooned into Little Girl. With the second chorus came pandemonium...
...mostly in the form of journalistic pieces on the theater, actors, critics, fellow playwrights and, Lord have mercy on their souls, the benighted detractors of Sean O'Casey. What raises this book above its crotchets is the old (76) dramatist's unslaked love of life and the lilt of his harpsprung prose...
Seldom truly raffish, the show is often just plain dull. There are some attractive Hammerstein lyrics, and the Rodgers score ranges pleasantly from the lilt of A Lopsided Bus to the schmalz of All at Once You Love Her. But the production adds little gloss: the dancing is uninspired, the performing?except for William Johnson as Doc?unimpressive. TV's Judy Tyler is little more than a pretty ingenue, and as the madam, Opera Singer Helen Traubel is wildly though likably miscast...
...paced too rapidly and the punch line is buried under the heavy dirgue of the following speech. If Director Richard Smithies had applied his talent in developing the humor with the same adroitness he exhibited in the remainder of The Gondoliers, the evening would have had an even brighter lilt...
Still, there are some pleasant things here too. Some of the scenes have a Lili-like lilt. One of the ballets, in which Michael gives Leslie a cooking lesson in the palace kitchen, is a sightly romp. The color is fresh and bright. Cinderella's dress for the ball is wonderful-the skirt looks like a frilly igloo* -and Leslie wears it as a princess should. And when all else fails, there is Keenan Wynn. As somebody called Kovin, a confidant of the prince, poor Keenan has practically nothing to do all through the picture except to stride...