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This first triumph was marked by three characteristics which have guided Rosalind Russell's theatrical career ever since. She has 1) 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...
Honest Exuberance. Wonderful Town is a simple musical fable about two venturesome Ohio sisters who invade Manhattan. One (Edith Adams) has a come-hither eye; the other (Rosalind Russell) has a go-to manner. Based on the humorous New Yorker short stories by Ruth McKenney, the show has had a long dramatic history: it was a 1940 Broadway hit as My Sister Eileen, starring this year's Oscar-winning Shirley Booth (see CINEMA). Rosalind made the movie version in 1942 and has played the role of Ruth in a dozen radio broadcasts. Though always successful, the show was never...
...packed houses at Wonderful Town are as entranced by Rosalind's creaky dancing as by her croaking voice. Any one of the 13 chorus girls can dance better than she does. But, like such great performers as Ethel Merman and. Bea Lillie, Rosalind Russell represents the triumph of personality over technique: she communicates to her audience all the rewarding warmth and humor of shared experience...
Like Champagne. For Rosalind, Wonderful Town is a Broadway homecoming after an 18-year absence. During her Hollywood exile she appeared in 40 movies, fought her way to stardom as an accomplished, but badly typecast, comedienne, and saw her movie career almost dwindle away into a nothingness of unexciting parts...
...Toni Twins.) Van Johnson's wife Evie says: "I don't think I've ever seen her out of sorts. She's buoyant, like champagne." Ros's party gags, even in touchy Hollywood, make few enemies. The reason, thinks Loretta, is that "Rosalind is always Ros. She has a natural instinct for ridiculing herself and not anyone else...