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...adding one fat and very funny man to one thin and not so funny play, My 3 Angels strikes a fair average. Sam and Bella Spewack must have chuckled, occasionally, while writing this fantasy of three warm-hearted convicts at Cayenne. But it takes more than a running gag or even a moderate number of good lines, to make a comedy consistently entertaining. Rather than the authors, it is pudgy Walter Slezak in the role of a combination convict, Cupid, and J. P. Morgan, who holds the play's biggest investment in laughs. To him belongs much of the credit...
...Angels (adapted from the French of Albert Husson by Sam & Bella Spewack) makes a very enjoyable evening of an always piquant theme. It tells how three badmen-convicts, in fact-become the good angels of a sadly harassed household. The scene is French Guiana, a region where on Christmas Day the temperature graciously drops to 104°, and where convicts can not only hire out but apparently never have to report back. The Messrs. Fixit of My 3 Angels are employed as roofers by a family in dire danger of having no roof over their heads: on the way from...
...Golden State (by Samuel Spewack; produced by Bella Spewack) is a hack comedy that sinks even that bounciest and most cork-brained of comediennes, Josephine Hull. Playwright Spewack sets out to kid California's well-known ambition to be El Dorado when, it grows up. Actress Hull plays a hopeful landlady who, through a Spanish ancestor, lays property claims to all of Beverly Hills. Ernest Truex plays a hopeful prospector who thinks he discovers gold in Miss Hull's back yard and makes frenzied forty-niners of the other roomers...
...Said That? (Mon. 10:30 p.m., NBC). Guests: Milton Caniff, Al Capp, Bella Spewack...
Kiss Me, Kate (music & lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Bella & Sam Spewack; produced by Arnold Saint Subber & Lemuel Ayers) was 1948's last new show, and by far its best musical. It is only a musical, and not, like Oklahoma!, a milestone as well. But if nothing about it is revolutionary, everything is right. Full-blooded and sassy and enormously gay, Kiss Me, Kate can brag about its music at least, without blushing for its book; it looks pretty, moves fast, is full of bright ideas and likable people...