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...grand, silly movie original 42nd Street that Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley whipped up for Warner Bros. in 1933 was shorter, sharper and funnier than this elaboration, which includes several more numbers and, if possible, even less plot. The Warren-Dubin songs like Go into Your Dance, Shuffle off to Buffalo and About a Quarter to Nine are jazzy bits of innocent syncopation. There is now a good deal of narrative and emotional weight on these tunes, which are graceful little paper boats never made for such heavy cargo. The book, which the program accurately calls "lead-ins and crossovers...
...plot, though serviceable, is not really the point. It is just an excuse for some hard but sympathetic observations of the way many people live now. Director Scheerer may not fully realize that; there is something unemphatic in his handling of material that needs to be sharper. The acting is good. Lange is hard and dizzy, Saint James mousy and distracted, Curtin self-pitying yet capable. When called upon to improvise a striptease in order to cover her pals' getaway, she is both game and sexy. Her developing relationship with a shy policeman, expertly played by Dabney Coleman, adds...
...jobless surge shows that the Administration's painful, but unavoidable, policy is at last beginning to take hold. Supporting evidence that the economic downturn could be a lot sharper than previously expected came from the Commerce Department. It reported that its index of leading economic indicators, which predicts future economic movements, plunged 2.6% in March. That was the largest one-month drop since the 1974-75 recession. Anti-Inflation Adviser Alfred Kahn, with his characteristic candor, said last week: "The country now faces the dilemma we have so long feared, the twin ugly evils of accelerating inflation...
Ronan traced the eventual defeat to the heavies' first 500 meters. "After the first 500, we were as tough as we've ever been. If we'd rowed the beginning a little sharper... or if the race had been 20 meters longer... but we can't feel badly about the race we rowed...
P.D.Q. Bach's The Stoned Guest is yet a sharper spear in the chest of dramatic opera than Bugs Bunny. To compliment or condemn the acting or the singing in this "opera" is to insult Peter Schickele's frivolous intention...