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...slightly tentative air about it, as if no one concerned ever quite believed the picture was going to be released. A musical remake of the 1942 movie (starring Rosalind Russell) that was, in turn, adapted from the 1940 Broadway play based on the humorous New Yorker stories by Ruth McKenney, the film must inevitably face comparison with Broadway's Wonderful Town, the hit musical (also starring Rosalind Russell) that derived from the same stories. The comparison is devastatingly in favor of Wonderful Town...
Honest Exuberance. Wonderful Town is a simple musical fable about two venturesome Ohio sisters who invade Manhattan. One (Edith Adams) has a come-hither eye; the other (Rosalind Russell) has a go-to manner. Based on the humorous New Yorker short stories by Ruth McKenney, the show has had a long dramatic history: it was a 1940 Broadway hit as My Sister Eileen, starring this year's Oscar-winning Shirley Booth (see CINEMA). Rosalind made the movie version in 1942 and has played the role of Ruth in a dozen radio broadcasts. Though always successful, the show was never...
Joseph T. McKenney, director of physical education in the Boston schools, urged that the city accept the offer of John W. Watson '22 to donate $100,000 towards the purchase price, and buy the Arena outright...
...Manhattan, Novelist Ruth (All About Eileen) McKenney, who was notably humorless about her membership in the Communist Party a few years ago, told a New York Times reporter that she fears the American public is losing its taste for humor. Said she: "A lot of humor implies criticism of established institutions and behavior, and right now we're trying to keep our faith in the established order intact. [Self-appointed censors] want people to laugh only at the approved jokes. No more levity when it comes to religion, intelligence tests, foreign accents and insanity . . . Bad taste. Why, the great...
When all the twitterment is over, the patient reader will find that he has been sold the hoary old tourist round of cathedrals and castles, the Tower of London, and all. The only new thing McKenney has to offer is a minority opinion on cricket-a wonderful game, it seems, after...