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...Seventeen (book by Sally Benson, based on Booth Tarkington's novel; music by Walter Kent; lyrics by Kim Gannon) is chiefly a period musical, with more tinkle than Tarkington, more of life in 1907 than of love at 17. Some of it is agreeable enough. But the infatuation of Willie Baxter for Lola Pratt seems much less a fondly done comic valentine than a conventional lace one, and a genuine American classic of youngness has become a mere frolic of youth...
...most part, Seventeen cultivates an air of the good old summertime. The people being young and the medium musi-comedy, there is naturally a great deal of dancing-all rather pleasant, all much alike. But the main reason why Seventeen never really clicks in musical form is that there is neither body nor soul to its music...
...full two hour view of bashful, puberty conscious adolescents amuse you, then do not miss the musical comedy adaption of Booth Tarkington's "Seventeen." That is all you will...
...Nineteen-seventeen came, and "every one knew the old regime was over." Sorokin also saw that the Socialists were destined to lost their post-Revolutionary struggle with the Bolsheviks. As a delegate to the First (and only) Soviet Congress, he was in a good position to view the political trend. "Things were going the wrong way," he meditates sadly. "I could see that it was not to be a bloodless revolution. Why I was not shot I shall never know; the profound reason, I guess, is that I am just lucky...
Another feature which Lowell is proud of is its carillon bells. An anecdote that Perkins is fond of telling concerns the mysterious silence of these bells. The seventeen-bell, carillon came from Russia complete with an expert, who started to perform immediately...