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...smashing successes in two years is the record Buddy DeSylva has compiled on the musical comedy stage. First, in "Stars in Your Eyes," he had the irrepressible combination of Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante to put across some of Cole Porter's best songs. Last year Bert Lahr's contortions replaced Durante's wheezings and the resultant "DuBarry Was a Lady" was as much a hit as its predecessor. And now the Shubert stage has DeSylva's latest offering, with Miss Merman the lone star, surrounded by a cordon of well-known and capable performers drawn from the stage, screen...
...Barry Was a Lady. Regulation musicomedy at its rawest and most resplendent, with Bert Lahr and Ethel Merman at their brightest and best (TIME...
Coach Hal Ulen leads a six-man Crimson tank delegation to Philadelphia today in quest of swimming laurels in the two-day Eastern Intercollegiates. Captain Eric Cutler is the only Harvard merman with a good chance to bring back an individual crown, but the Utenmen may place second to Yale in the final point total...
...Barry Was a Lady. Regulation musicomedy at its rawest and most resplendent, with Bert Lahr and Ethel Merman at their brightest and best (TIME...
Katie Went to Haiti (Leo Reisman; Victor). Gertrude Niesen does about as well by this Cole Porter frolic as Ethel Merman does in the show, Du Barry Was a Lady...