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After all these years--here it is; the well nigh perfect musical comedy. They may come bigger, but they don't come better than "Peggy Ann." The Fields-Rogers-Hart combination was responsible for the book and score; Helen Ford and Lulu McConnell, aided by a clever cast and a slim and agile chorus, romp through the zany-like plot; and the audience has a simply swell time the entire evening...
...nice lilt and good lyrics: "A Tree in A Park" sounded awfully good to us but then Helen Ford sang it and as far as we're concerned she could sing anything and we'd ask for more. No criticism would be complete without several bravas for Lulu McConnell: she may be vulgar but she's very funny and she has a laugh that does things to your vertebrae and almost shatters the Wilbur chandeliers. Betty Sarbuck, as Alice, Penfant terrible, is excellent. And there is an extremely personable young man named Stark Patterson who is well, we're just...
...undertones of the play are powerful, startling, exquisite. As overwritten by Mr. Milne, overacted by Henry Hull, overproduced, it becomes a despair to the intelligent, most of whom honor Mr. Milne at his best;* and Henry Hull likewise (Lulu Belle). Mr. Hull mincing with earnestness, gurgles: "I am only a young man and I want to know. . . ." Helen Chandler, pitched into the role of a romantic maiden after two days' rehearsal, trembled prettily...
...progressive town with shiny buildings, civic pride and a school board.This school board, headed by the Rev. A. T. Ekblad and backed by the Mayor, intends to prepare Superior children for "life" (i. e., business). In Central High School there has been for 23 years a popular teacher, Lulu J. Dickinson, who preaches the humanities and tries to steer her pupils toward college. On March 14, the school board ousted her because she had been twitting its members before her classes. Forthwith, sly pupils wrote on blackboards: "We want our Lulu back." On April Fool...
...Lulu Belle?Lenore Ulric as a colored prostitute who struts to Paris and strangulation...