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...Four hundred men's clothing manufacturers, meeting in Boston, optimistically announced that they would dress U.S. males in gay plumage in 1949. Proposed innovations: nylon socks in rainbow colors, jackets with big patch pockets and matching belts, pastel shirts and two-tone belts with big "bold look" buckles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 17, 1949 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...Copley, Robert E. Sherwood's "The Road to Rome" involves funny business in the field of Rome and sex. "Finian's Rainbow," at the Shubert, is a sure bet musical if you can get the seats...

Author: By Jack Spratte, | Title: Weekend Sidelights | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

...world of the theater, there are six plays currently on the Boston stage. Some, like the Tributary Theater's production of Anna Christie at New England Mutual Hall, are revivals. Some, like Finian's Rainbow and Harvey, are returning to Boston after long runs on Broadway. And others, such as Michael Todd's new production As the Girls Go, Moss Hart's Light Up the Sky, or Josephine Hull and Eddie Dowling's Minnle and Mr. Williams, are on their first trial runs here before hitting the big time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weekend Entertainment | 10/23/1948 | See Source »

...Finian's Rainbow and Harvey should be sure bets for anyone that has missed them so far, since both shows have retained their original casts. Light Up The Sky, a satirical comedy show business, features, among others, Virginia Field, Sam Levine, and Audrey Christie, and has been well reviewed by the Boston critics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weekend Entertainment | 10/23/1948 | See Source »

Love Life (music by Kurt Weill; book & lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; produced by Cheryl Crawford) can boast the Best of Everything-the producer and the librettist of Brigadoon, the composer of Lady in the Dark, the director of A Streetcar Named Desire, the choreographer of Finian's Rainbow, the leading lady of High Button Shoes, the leading man of Annie Get Your Gun. But whether so many top-notchers are like too many cooks, or whether some of them have slipped a notch or two, Love Life is not really a good show; it is only a show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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