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...Messrs. Shubert have brought back a well-dusted edition, replete with modernized lines that crack wise at Clark Gable's ears and Dot Thompson's voice and figures. It is one of those curious mixtures of slap-stick comedy and genuinely beautiful music, which doesn't shake up too well at times but which would find its justification if the cast were only to step out in front of the scenery and follow the orchestra through Rudolph Friml's famous score. The comedy does get pretty good in spots, and the immense Hope Emerson as Lady Jane, Don Gantier...
...there is no spring in Cambridge, the sky is wet and gray, But it's blossom time at the Shubert, chez Messrs, Lee and J. For a bit of Old Vienna is houseguest...
Equally busy were the Shuberts in forming an outfit called the "Performing Rights Society of the Theatre, Inc.," which plans to air chunks of the estimated 500 lush musical plays over which the hard-fisted Brothers Shubert exercise "grand rights...
Second feature, "Dancing on a Dime," is a lot of catchy music and clever dancing centered about a defunct W.P.A. theatre project with Bob Paige and Grace McDonald, a couple of young unknowns, finding some way to finance the show when Uncle Same decides not to compete with Shubert or Minsky...
Thus spoke Dante--prestidigitator, illusionist, showman par excellence, whose so-called mystery spectacle, "Sim Sala Bim," is now causing worried frowns and bewildered head-scratching at the Shubert Theatre in Boston...