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Most American comedy zigzags its merry way between a spoofing irreverence and a spanking incongruity. At times, it darts down the side streets of satire; often it winds up in the zany alleys of fantasy. At its pithy best, the comic cartoon can do all these things at once. Three...
King David and King Solomon Led merry, merry lives With many, many lady friends And many, many wives.
Claudette Colbert, MacDonald Carey, and that old Romeo Zachary Scott ride the merry-go-round with as much levity as they can muster, but the trip is too bumpy, the pace too slow, and the verbiage too heavy. In short, "Let's Make It Legal" is a terrible show.
The "round" of the title is a roundelay of love in ten episodes; after each amorous intrigue, one of the lovers moves, in the next episode, into the arms of a new partner, who flits in turn to another lover until the ironic game comes full circle. Through the cycle...
Till Eulenspiegel (U.S. premiere), set to the raucous, good-humored music of Richard Strauss, with choreography by 27-year-old Jean Babilée (TIME, April 23). In the Babilée version, Till's merry pranks usually have their grim side, e.g., when a pretty girl spurns him...