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...Hugh Herbert's The Moon is Blue graces the Henry Miller on 43rd with the presence of Barbara Bel Goddes, Barry Nelson, and Donald Cook, while Welcott Gibbs' Fire Island comedy, Season in the Sun, continues at the Cort on 48th. Eddie Dowling and Joan McCracken close after the weekend at the Booth in Angel in the Pawnshop...
Into his soft-lighted pawnshop with its softhearted proprietor (Eddie Dowling) flutters, one day, a young girl (Joan McCracken). In full flight from a gangster husband, she has taken refuge inside a 16th Century dream world. Sometimes she dances, sometimes declaims, sometimes just dresses up like Queen Elizabeth. The gangster comes along to precipitate melodrama; other people, who have pawned their valuables, introduce humor, pathos, romance...
What poetry and picturesqueness Angel possesses stem from John E. Blankenchip's set and lighting, and Will Irwin's incidental music. The play itself is as devoid of charm as it is of sense, and the players do not help much. Joan McCracken is almost overbearingly girlish. Eddie Dowling - dying at the end with a bright smile and a brighter spotlight on his face - displays his habitual unconquerable benevolence, his seeming desire to bring to humanity all the year round what A Christmas Carol brings it at Christmas...
...many cooks, or mere incompetent cooking, Dance Me a Song makes very thin broth. For awhile it can just manage to be termed uneven; by the end, there is no kinder word than weak. The show boasts a batch of sprightly and likable young people, including Dancer Joan McCracken. But youth at the prow can seldom prosper without ability in the engine room. The show has some pleasantly simple dance numbers, but more that are noisy and elaborate. One or two songs are nice enough to listen to, but there are none worth talking about. The sketches, always the most...
...MARIAN MCCRACKEN Baltimore...