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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawrence Schwab presented "Nice Goin'" at the Shubert Monday night. Between yawns, the audience wondered when the highly touted Miss Mary Martin would appear. At last, after two interminable scenes, Miss Martin finally entered, all-shining in a golden gown. She then proceeded to sing a song nobody could understand, and the audience never recovered from the shock...
Prior to this catastrophe, Bert Wheeler bet his watch with a guy that Lee Dixon, premier lover of the U. S. fleet, could garner a garter from Miss Martin, premiere iceberg of the Republic of Panama. In the meantime, Miss Martin has fallen for her hero, and he for her, but when she learns of the wager, she calls the affair off until the final curtain...
Among the principals, Pert Kelton creates a slight hiatus with her renditions of "Stick to Your Arithmetic" and "I Was Afraid of That"; if you shut your eyes, Mr. Dixon's voice and tapping is entertaining--but these two score against very mediocre competition. Miss Martin is torrid only when she is coy, but her part herein demands that she be frigid, and hence her occasional attempts at coyness only serve to make her appear ridiculously childish. Furthermore, she has no song suited to either her voice or her personality, and she looks ill and overworked...
...which to work, but they give it life. It is encouraging to see two actresses, with storehouses of experience behind them, land parts that give them a chance to hit the boards with some real acting, not just sideline mugging. They both make the best of their opportunities, especially Miss Taylor, whose char-woman was one of the best, if not the best, performance of last year's Broadway season...
...SILENT DUCHESS-Anne Green-Harper ($2.50). Unusually trustworthy times-&-manners fiction about France be fore the Revolution, by the sister of Julian Green. Miss Green's Duchess breaks silence in old age to describe her century with a fine grandmotherly wit, telling her tales about as well as they are told in the sources (Saint-Simon, Voltaire...