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...practically as good as the Harvard Glee Club. The girls also sang acapella a madrigal by Weelkes with the skill and lightness of a few experienced singers. But Woody steals half the show when he expresses the sense of the music in his face. In the mellifluent parts of Shubert's Valsos Nobles, for instance, Woody licked his chops as if the girls were slipping him a Western over the piano . . . and did they ever respond...
...Saturday night recently in Boston, the Shubert Theatre's SRO sign was out. Inside, Leave It to Me, a musicomedy soon to open on Broadway, sailed ahead to roars of laughter. Victor Moore wowed the audience in the role of a dumbbell U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union. The pretty Goodhue girls revived memories of the Florodora Sextet. The box office had counted up a huge $25,000 for the week, and the show's press-agent remarked: "I've never seen a show run so smoothly before it reached Broadway...
...Leave It To Me!" is the title of the new Cole Porter musical which opened last night at the Shubert to applause that delayed the production half an hour but was more than deserved by all concerned. Calculated to delight the lovers of gay tunes and sprightly if at times questionable patter, the play offers fifteen songs, most of which do justice to their composer, and a laugh-packed book by Bella and Samuel Spewack...
Last week, Boxing Tsar Mike Jacobs, Theatrical Producer Lee Shubert and Jai-Alai Promoter Richard Berenson pooled their backgrounds and bank accounts to introduce the Cuban national game to Broadway. With all the éclat of a Hollywood première, Promoters Jacobs, Shubert & Berenson transformed the famed old Hippodrome into a jai-alai fronton (at a cost of $100,000), exhibited 30 of the world's top-notch jai-alaiers in a demonstration of what has been called the "fastest game in the world...
...Night of January 16 and French Without Tears, all Broadway successes. Other noteworthy plans include Ibsen's Brand, never before professionally performed in the U. S., at Litchneld, Conn.; a Booth Tarkington festival, supervised by Booth Tarkington and including Seventeen, Aromatic Aaron Burr, at Kennebunkport, Me.; Gallo-Shubert revivals at Jones Beach and Randall's Island, N. Y., Cleveland, Louisville; Victor Hugo's Ruy Bias at Central City, Colo.; and Paul Green's pageant, The Lost Colony, at Manteo, Roanoke Island...