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South Pacific (Majestic, 44th St. W. of B'way) is still a great hit, now starring Ray Middleton and Mary Martin. Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate, (Shubert, 44 W.) with Anne Jeffreys and Ted Scott, is still packing them in. The Saga of Lorelei Lee, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, (Ziegfeld, 54th St. and Sixth Ave.) continues with Carol Channing and Yvenne Adair in leading roles...
...After Tomorrow (by Frederick Lonsdale; produced by Lee & J. J. Shubert) is the first light comedy in seven years by the author of Aren't We All?, Spring Cleaning and The Last of Mrs. Cheyney. Lonsdale still favors the drawing room, in this case a ducal one. But in this case the Duke of Bristol and all his clan are stony broke, and-except for industrious Gerard-indolent, incompetent and alcoholic. A young American heiress to $10 million (Beatrice Pearson) wanders in off the road with pneumonia, falls madly in love with Gerard (Ralph Michael), and he with...
Frederick Lonsdale is the man responsible for carrying the Austerity Program over into the field of comedy. Although he has written an occasional witty line, the ushers at the Shubert will probably be yawning for the better part of two weeks. Lonsdale's story is the old one about a penniless but aristocratic British family and a beautiful American girl who happens to be a millionaires. An excellent cast, headed by Melville Cooper and Ralph Michael, gets every drop of humor out of an essentially dull play...
...leggy Literatease Gypsy Rose Lee in Variety, by way of explaining the secret of her success. Way back "when the rest of the gals at Minsky's were working on the third layer of skin [and covering] themselves with a dark blue spotlight, I covered myself with a Shubert pink and black lace undies...
...rest of the pieces were relatively unfamiliar: minnesong, Shubert songs, and works for the guitar. In explaining his program Dyer-Bennett defined himself as "not a balladeer but a minstrel: a musical entertainer who sings the accompaniment of a stringed instrument." One standard of a ministrel's success is whether he leaves his audience wanting one more song; that is what Dyer-Bennett...