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...Wait a Minim! is an ingratiating musical revue that is light of hand, light of heart, and light of foot, possibly because the cast is barefoot most of the time. This sparklingly talented company (five men, three girls) seems to share its songs rather than sell them, knows how to sail its jokes across the footlights rather than slug them, and times its spoofy skits to the precise half note (which is what a minim...
...troubled waters of South African race policy receive a scattering of satiric pebbles in Minim, but the all-white cast is scarcely in a position to throw critical stones. Indeed, their imitations of black Africans seem a trifle anemic, especially in a closing drum-and-stomp session. Otherwise, this troupe is so gifted that it may never see Johannesburg again...
...ambitious scale. Last week's concert included, in addition to the Beethoven selection, Mozart's Concerto No. 4 for Violin and Orchestra, Chausson's Poem for Violin and Orchestra, the overture to Rossini's Barber of Seville. The orchestra negotiated all of them with every minim and crotchet in place," and with a typical air of lyric enthusiasm...
...I.L.W.U. got the sugar workers a contract providing minim urns of 41?to 43½?an hour (up from 26½?), plus perquisites such as company housing and medical care. This year the I.L.W.U., strong and cÕnifident, asked for much more sweetening: 1) a 65? minimum; 2) joint company-union administration of perquisites; 3) a 40-hour week; 4) the union shop. That was too much for the planters; for weeks negotiations have been stalemated...
...marry, Young joins the Federal Prohibition force. He soon learns the futility of his endeavor from a seasoned agent of the law (Jimmy Durante). Gangsters try to kill him. He is saved by Durante at the lamentable expense of Durante's own life. But this is only a minim of catastrophe. The heroine's brother goes blind from poison booze. The hero's father gets life imprisonment for murder...