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Leading off the list of popular musicals is Guys and Dolle, a brassy, tough affair starring Vivian Blaine. Guys and Dolle, which was called from a Damon Runyon gambling story, is running at the 46th Street Theatre...
...Damon Runyon Cancer Fund received the largest share, $3,538, of the Combined Charities' total of $17,805, Drive Chairman Robert P. Hyde '51 announced last night...
Heading the list of new musicals is a thing assembled by many hands and parading under the title of Guys and Dolls. It is derived, partially, from a Damon Runyon story, and has to do with a floating crap game. It's funny, fast paced, and tuneful, but tickets are very scarce...
...Swerling & Abe Burrows; produced by Feuer & Martin) whizzes through the whole first act hardly once having to stop for a light. If the second act slows thing's up a bit, Guys and Dolls emerges a thoroughly good, lively, lowdown musical. Using fleece-lined tough material of Damon Runyon's, it takes a full-in-the-face but indulgent view of Broadway's cop-fleeing dice players and their dolls. What results, if not always authentic, is raffish and picturesque, and though it seems ground out here & there, at least it is freshly ground...
...going is really smooth and the atmosphere really lively because Guys and Dolls belongs with the few musicals in any decade that can beam rather than swear at their librettos. Helped immensely at the source by Damon Runyon and in the staging by George S. Kaufman, the Jo Swerling-Abe Burrows book offers gags that don't seem like pressed four-leaf clovers, a lingo full of amusing genteelisms, humor that is disarming, good humor that is pervasive. Guys and Dolls would be virtually a model of its type if it were less insistent, or more convincing, about love...