Word: marta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first real artist was Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, whose fee he beat down to $500. S. Hurok hired the New York Hippodrome for popular-priced concerts, a new thing then. To swell the advance sales on Belgian Violinist Eugene Ysaÿe, Hurok advertised in the Sunday Telegram: - Actress Marta Eggert...
...quite able to save this one. Their score is agreeable enough, with a few good swinging tunes like Disgustingly Rich and How's Your Health. But it's their slimmest job in a number of years. Making her first U. S. appearance in musicomedy, Hungarian Actress Marta Eggert (wife of Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura) is pleasing but not outstanding; returning to Broadway after seven years in Hollywood, Comic Jack Haley is amusing but not uproarious. Biggest thing in the show is a trained seal named Sharkey. Unfortunately, he is provided with the smallest part...
...Marta Eggert, though very soprano-ish, makes an appealing heroine, and snuggles her four feeten into Leif Erickson's brawny arms with the proper warmth. Jack Haley is still the same old Cowardly Lion, and very funny too, when he isn't forced to wring a laugh out of an old one. Still it's Rodgers' and Hart's show all the way through, but the public to get a smash hit, will have to wait until these gentlemen come around again to writing for Ray Bolger and Tamara Geva, and to hiring a new author...