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Guys and Dolls. Delightful lowdown musical about Broadway's floating crap games and the Damon Runyon babes who need new shoes (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

Guys and Dolls. Delightful lowdown musical about Broadway's floating crap games and the Damon Runyon babes who need new shoes (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: No News Is Bad News | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

Where did they all come from-the familiar names and faces which populate the world's nurseries and schoolrooms: the Little Jack Homers, the Georgie Porgies, the old women who live in shoes? Last week Britain's grown-ups were getting the scholarly lowdown from an authoritative reference book: the Oxford University Press's new Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who Started Cock Robin? | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

Would I Love You (Love You, Love You). Helen O'Connell starts sweet and ends lowdown in her version of one of the newest heart-on-sleeve songs (for Capitol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Feb. 12, 1951 | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...Dolls (music & lyrics by Frank Loesser; book by Jo Swerling & Abe Burrows; produced by Feuer & Martin) whizzes through the whole first act hardly once having to stop for a light. If the second act slows thing's up a bit, Guys and Dolls emerges a thoroughly good, lively, lowdown musical. Using fleece-lined tough material of Damon Runyon's, it takes a full-in-the-face but indulgent view of Broadway's cop-fleeing dice players and their dolls. What results, if not always authentic, is raffish and picturesque, and though it seems ground out here & there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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