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...Love Me Tonight" has a slight edge on its companion piece in entertainment value as well as in the amount of impressive talent it displays. This story of a tailor who successfully woos a princess has the light directorial touch of Rouben Mamoulian and some superb Rodgers and Hart songs, including "Isn't it Romantic," "Mimi," and the immortal "Lover." C. Aubrey Smith and Myrna Loy are featured players, along with Charlie Ruggles as a flat broke viscount and Charlie Butterworth, that incomparable old-school comedian, as Chevalier's and eyed rival for Miss MacDonald's hand. "One Hour With...
Arms and the Girl (book by Herbert & Dorothy Fields & Rouben Mamoulian; music by Morton Gould; lyrics by Dorothy Fields; produced by the Theatre Guild in association with Anthony Brady Farrell) can thank its stars that they are its stars. For Broadway's Nanette Fabray and the Continent's Georges Guetary, together with Singing Comedienne Pearl Bailey, have the charm and personality to make Arms and the Girl a good deal better evening than it is a show...
Bundling is the subject of "The Pursuit of Happiness," by Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall, and it is on this play that "Arms and the Girl" is based. The new product has a rowdy, bumptious book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields and Rouben Mamoulian. It calls on Nannette Fabray to play a girl who tries to win the American Revolution singlehanded, but succeeds only in causing complete confusion. Her mission brings her to make clever use of her bed in times of crisis--with and without a large, saw-toothed "bundling board." Miss Fabray has plenty of assurance and ability...
...first act moves at a fast pace, thanks to Rouben Mamoulian's direction. The show suffers from a slight ease of second act sag, but in spite of this, a bouncing, healthy show was born Tuesday night at the Shubert...
...production has many merits: Rouben Mamoulian's swift, pictorial staging, some of Kurt Weill's music, Todd Duncan as the father, Julian Mayfield as the son, ten-year-old Herbert Coleman bringing down the house with Big Mole. But with half as much, Lost in the Stars might have been twice as good...