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...operetta is a pre-season treat for G&S fans and a delightful introduction for neophytes. Think of it as a Gilbert and Sullivan sound-bite: 45 minutes of what has brought audiences back for well over a century. Bellow "God Save the Queen," thrill to the pun-ny patter, roll your eyes at the ending and still make it home in time for the post-trial wrap-up shows...
Dolly's pretty mouth has other things to teach him as well. The girl and her twin brother (Gordon Rand) have evolved a rapid-fire patter that tongue-ties everyone around them. Smith and Rand do a nifty job of depicting the deepest sibling affinities. They can finish each other's sentences because they are, finally, one creature: that familiar Shaw character, the Bright Young Upstart, whose iconoclasm glides and shimmers rather than pounds and thunders. Unfortunately, others in the cast (Helen Taylor as the twins' icy sister Gloria, with whom the dentist falls in love; Jack Medley...
...arrived in 1939, when an aspiring actress named Judy Holliday stepped into the club to get out of the rain. Holliday got to talking to Gordon and persuaded him to give her and a couple of pals, Adolph Green and Betty Comden, a showcase for a revue of patter borrowed from the likes of No?l Coward. Last week Comden recalled how her musical-comedy career with Green "all started right here, when someone told us we should be paying royalties, and we belatedly realized we had to write our own stuff...
...CASE do not refer to the buff bodies in the Mather House dining hall but to the dozen or so babies who have recently appeared during meals. This year, due to an overwhelming number of house tutors with young children, Matherites have been growing increasingly accustomed to the pitter-patter of little feet. Three-month-olds are bottle-fed in the dining halls; preschoolers solemnly peruse Mother Goose in Mather's cozy concrete library. It is even said (albeit by shaky sources) that they can be found in the weight room. Is this explosion of fecundity a mere coincidence...
...scurrying of my student's little feet the pitter patter pitter...