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...bright side of St. Louis Woman is its musicomedy side. The show's only real dance number, a spanking cakewalk contest, has style and dash. The show's only real comic, Nightclub Singer Pearl Bailey, has the lumbering slink and lusty humor to turn two sex-salted ditties, Legalize My Name and A Woman's Prerogative into near showstoppers. The show's boisterous finale, with a frenzied crowd perched on rooftops and stepladders for a sneak-view of Augie's big race, has freshness, bounce. Lemuel Ayers's sets and costumes have musicomedy splash...
...make the going pleasanter, the Met will throw out what Director Francis Henry Taylor calls the "bronze grapefruit tree" lamps that flank the entrance, and the gingerbread decorations inside, will re-do the 25 formidable front steps so that they do not make people shrink and slink as they climb them. The giant tomb of Perneb, which stands like a road block before the Egyptian wing, will be tucked into place about two blocks away. The Met will also put in escalators for weary museum-feet, a new, airy restaurant for the hungry, a radio-broadcasting and television studio...
...first one to slink in was the U-249, which put in at Weymouth harbor, in southern England, with ten unfired torpedoes aboard. Soon others were moving to English and Scottish ports; two came in to Gibraltar. The first surrender in the western Atlantic occurred when a patrolling R.C.A.F. Liberator spotted a U-boat and summoned surface craft to bring it in to Shelburne...
...lovers. I did the best I could in two hours." For a while her best was reasonably good: she seemed to make Lords of the Bedchamber of the whole Russian court and boudwarriors of half the Russian army. As she followed her hips about the stage in a solemn slink, as she languidly drew shameless innuendos from her husky throat, Actress West caught some of the aplomb, humor and matchless vulgarity of her "Come up and see me some time." But pretty soon her unvaried role began to pull and so, soon after, did her unvarying way of playing...
Said petite Chinese Fan-Dancer Noel Toy ruefully: "When I am dancing, the fans fly apart. I cannot help that." Said Miss Hart: "I have never done a bump or a grind in my life." Said Miss Toy: "Neither have I. It's vulgar." Added Miss Hart: "I slink...