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Compared to Of Thee I Sing, with which Author Kaufman, in company then with Morrie Ryskind and the Gershwins. won the Pulitzer Prize for 1931, I'd Rather Be Right is a buttoned, if glistening, foil. The Kaufman-Ryskind play took a swift jab at the heart of the body politician, and the late George Gershwin's "Wintergreen for President" summed up the whole oompah spirit of torchlit political nonsense in a single musical phrase. The new play pokes playfully at a dozen current problems, much in the manner of the semi-annual Gridiron satires staged...
...late Bert Leston Taylor ("B. L. T.") as much for his contributors as for his own writings. Some favorite F. P. A. "contribs," under their own names and various pseudonyms, have been Poets Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Arthur Guiterman, Writers Sinclair Lewis Morrie (Of Thee I Sing) Ryskind, Ring Lardner, John Erskine, Edna Ferber, Composer Deems Taylor, Funnyman Groucho Marx...
...city dumps, she keeps him on as butler because Godfrey (William Powell) represents the outstanding achievement of her frivolous life. Godfrey, ready for renewed contact with a world in which his previous life came to disaster, wants to see if destitution has disciplined him for soft high life. Morrie Ryskind and Eric Hatch have peopled Irene's world with the most completely realistic set of rich crazy people seen on the screen for some time. Butler Godfrey shows the babbling Mrs. Bullock how to get rid of the "little men" that haunt her after parties. He disciplines her musician...
...play, by Kaufman and Ryskind is a beautiful piece of satire on the RFC and the men who run it. Of the two professors who come to investigate Benny, his partner, and their staff of six hotcha girls who run the Black Creek Railroad, one is a professor of anthropology at Columbia, and the other of Hebraic Languages at Harvard. These trusted scholars are delightfully duped by Benny and friends until they are accosted by a man who says that he is an agent for the Department of Justice, whereupon one of the chorus girls pipes up "What's Justice...
When Of Thee I Sing was produced, a Presidential election loomed. The show's political jibes were more sharply pointed with every edition of the newspapers. Let 'em Eat Cake concerns itself with a revolution and a dictatorship. Perhaps Messrs. Kaufman & Ryskind could have been more amusing had they chosen to square off at President Roosevelt and the NRA. Instead, their libretto wanders dreamily away into demented unreality...