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...Fosdick wanted to retire three years ago as pastor of the Riverside Church. His trustees persuaded him to wait out the war, later agreed to fix the date as his 68th birthday: May 24, 1946. Last week, with that date at hand, the congregation announced his successor, Robert James McCracken, 42, professor of church history and the philosophy of religion at Ontario's McMaster University...
...Professor McCracken-who is as Scottish as his name-Riverside will be only his third parish, though his first this side of the Atlantic. Born in Motherwell, Lanark, and educated at Glasgow University, he had churches in Edinburgh and Glasgow, then became a lecturer in systematic theology at the Baptist Theological College of Scotland. Four years later he was called to his present chair in McMaster as assistant professor. But though this will be his first U.S. job, he is no stranger to Americans, to whom he has delivered many a lecture and sermon (three at Riverside Church...
...show offers a good many consolation prizes. Joan McCracken (Oklahoma!, Bloomer Girl) is engaging as the hard little heel, besides dancing her nimble feet off. Mitzi Green (Babes in Arms) plays the part and catches the color of a Texas Guinan. There is a wonderful takeoff of a big Ziegfeldish production number in which showgirls appear as bright-plumaged birds. There is a funny ballad in which a gangster reminisces about his rubbed-out pals. Most of Jerome Robbins' dances are lively and amusing; some of Morton Gould's tunes are witty, if not very tuneful...
...Billion Dollar Baby" purports to be a musical about the fabulous twenties. As a cynical ballyhoo of all that is shallow in the Jazz Age, it contains some outstanding ballet by Jerome Robbins, danced by Joan McCracken, some interesting if not catchy music by Morton Gould, and a negligible book. But it treats neither the twenties nor the audience the way they should be treated...
...however, put on a spectacular array of terpsichorean wizardry ranging from a classical rendition of a hornpipe to an example of modern dancing which is beyond doubt one of the best seen this season. Again the "Oklahoma" touch appears in Anabelle Lyon, who is a copy of Joan McCracken...