Word: shubertism
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Whatever may be said in the continuing battle of words of stage vs. screen, "Without Love," Phillip Barry's play of a few years back, has become as a motion picture far more entertaining fare than much of what clutters up the Shubert chain today...
Dark of the Moon (by Howard Richardson & William Berney; produced by the Messrs. Shubert) laudably strays off the beaten track, but lucklessly tarries too long in the tall grass...
Laffing Room Only (book by Olsen & Johnson and Eugene Conrad; music & lyrics by Burton Lane; produced by the Messrs. Shubert and Olsen & Johnson), considering that its father was Sons o' Fun and its grandfather Hellzapoppin, is a little on the rational side. It has the family tic-love of firearms and mania for practical jokes; it casually flips a sausage in your lap, starts an uproar in the aisles, and sports a big, live brown bear. But either Laffing Room Only lacks the old lunacy, or the old lunacy lacks the lure it once...
...Laffing Room Only" swings merrily into its last week at the Shubert leaving its audiences alternately hot and cold. Some of it is terrific and some is decidedly mediocre. It is "Sons of Fun" and "Helzapoppin" rolled into one and multiplied...
...display of cultural interest in things Shakespearian was overpowering. Bill Powell, Bob Zehrung, Dick Rowles, Ralph Rolling, and Bob Ronshoim were on hand at the Shubert early to see "Othello." Bob Ronshoim took time out from his interests in the racial question to review his controversial play. In the light of this experience, Bob has decided that Moors are a special case and it in no way affects his arguments...