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...bubbling confidence, 2) boundless energy, and 3) a shrewd sense of what is best for Rosalind Russell. Last week in Manhattan, she was again exhibiting all three as the star of Wonderful Town, the biggest hit of the Broadway season. Though she can neither sing nor dance, Ros has confidently and energetically sung & danced her way into the most enthusiastic rave reviews in recent memory. The Times's Brooks Atkinson, who declared that Rosalind "radiates the genuine comic spirit," demanded that she be elected President of the U.S. The Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr happily surrendered...
...everyone shared Ros's early confidence about the show. When she sang for her father-in-law, Nightclub Baritone Carl Bnsson, he held his temples and cried: "Are you going to bring that voice to Broadway?" Her gravelly, one-note vocalizing has been compared to the Ambrose Lightship calling to its mate. One critic thought that she sounded like "a raven with a throat condition," Ros (pronounced Roz) concedes that "I don't sing, I gargle...
...then, account for her success? Says Critic Kerr: "Instead of attacking a song, she inhabits one, moving around in it with such confidence, grace and honest exuberance as to make it entirely her own." So eager is the public to hear Ros and the rest of the cast that the show is playing to standing room, sold out for the next 5 weeks and orders have been taken for as far ahead as New Year's Eve. Decca Records is snowed under with 100,000 advance orders for the Wonderful Town album-a bigger advance sale than was chalked...
...Says Ros: "I've played 19 career women and I'm tired of it. After all, you can only get a pompadour so high. The plot was always the same, and I used to even get the same desk in each picture...
Those who have known Ros longest and best say that her part in Wonderful Town is simply an enlargement of her own personality. She has always been forthright, both "musically and noisily inclined," and has operated under a full head of steam. After the opening, she cried: "Imagine! They're paying me all this money to do the things I do at parties for free!" She is famous in Hollywood for her ability to clown a dying party back on to its feet. Loretta Young recalls that at many a fading soirée, Ros has come...