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...with delightful dissonance, and in "Pass That Football," a tribute to the well-paid college athlete, the eloquent stupidity of Bernstein's lumbering rhythm is as comic as the lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. While the intricacy of some of his music challenges both the lyricist and the singer's enunciation, Bernstein can write simple and memorable melodies. Wonderful Town has at least two songs hard to forget--"A Little Bit of Love" and "A Quiet Girl," but Bernstein's score will probably claim more space in your memory...
...musical numbers, smoothly staged by Kelly and Stanley Donen, are built around such oldtime songs as You Were Meant for Me, You Are My Lucky Star, and the picture's title tune,* most of them by Producer-Lyricist Freed and Composer Nacio Herb Brown. There is a delightful sequence in which Kelly dances down a puddle-filled street in a Technicolor downpour, and there are several gay take-offs on supercolossal Busby Berkeley girlie routines. But the show's biggest song & dance number is far from the best: a flossy 15-minute ballet about the Roaring Twenties that...
Petersen & Co. now have four numbers, including one about a motorized cowboy ("Instead of prodding with his spurs, he mashes on the gas"). But Lyricist Medley is still especially fond of Saturday Night Drag because it has a moral: "This hot-rodder gets caught, catch it? So maybe kids listenin' to the record don't go out and race except at a track. Catch...
...stand it any more. I got out of my seat and walked down to where he was sitting and said: 'Damn it, shut up, will you? I can't hear the movie.' Then I slapped him." Peering closely, Mason suddenly recognized his man as Playwright-Lyricist William (Hello, Out There) Saroyan. "So I said: 'Oh, hello, Bill. Shut up, will you?' Then I went back to my seat...
...suggests that the inhabitants of Tin Pan Alley, who are sometimes accused of borrowing their songs, also pattern their lives on one another. This time the old, sentimentalized story of humble beginnings, success, defeat and comeback-all neatly studded with song cues-has as its hero the late, prolific lyricist Gus Kahn...