Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With vest pocket Romeo Roland Young furthering the careers of a lot of hardworking blondes--some further than others--and doing it on the budget of a wife so tight that she sends paper napkins out to be dry cleaned, it takes Anna Neagle to straighten everything out. While combing mistresses out of her Uncle Bluebeard's whiskers, Miss Neagle sings, dances, and acts as well as ever. The word is "Yes" for "No, No, Nanette...
...shirt, and Mary shows them all up by losing her skirt. (Incidentally, it's a mighty nice cart that belong to Daddy.) Per usual, Rochester and Virginia steal the show. The dusky Juliet tolerates no playing around on her balcony after learning that Rochester has been elected star Romeo by all the ebony maidens of the Social and Come-What-May Club at Stratford on the Harlem. But the Willkie voiced butler reaches Virginia's over Shakespeare's dead body to provide a half-dozen of the most hilarious stunts in a film where nearly everything goes on and nearly...
...Conservatory. Composer Nordoff. who would have become a concert pianist had he not found that he was expected to study showy trash like Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, has written two piano concertos, a Whitmanesque Secular Mass, a Polynesian opera, the music for Katharine Cornell's production of Romeo and Juliet. Last week a Philadelphia production of a new one-act Nordoff opera, The Masterpiece, proved the most diverting event of a season in which the LT. S. lyric theatre had been taking a nice...
Good shot: Rochester, dressed as Romeo, croaking a potential hit called Dearest Darest...
...audience liked better the slinky, tuneful, banal choros and dances which were played by gourd-rattling Romeo Silva and his orchestra, familiar to many a visitor to the New York World's Fair. It liked better still a tall, dark soprano, Elsie Houston, who in a green dress looked and sounded like some jungle bird...