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...style and wit. The girls are beautiful, the costumes bright, the dancing fast & furious. Though "Fats" Waller's score provides no new Honeysuckle Rose and, in general, is bet ter danced than sung, it is pleasantly satisfying. The Ladies Who Sing With a Band is a gay spoof of female mike-blasters, This Is So Nice is a likeable ditty, There's a Man in My Life, a warming love song, and Hi-De-Ho-High is good Waller husky-dusky. One lyric offers the final criticism of liquid hosiery...
...over six months Chicago has supported a hillbilly horror which advertises that it "Makes Tobacco Road Blush." Maid in the Ozarks, written by housewifey, Ozark-born Claire Parrish, is no spoof, but a serious mountaineerful. Though the management plays it up as "Bawdy! Lusty! Unashamed!" its real stock in trade is not sex but unsavoriness -bedbugs and bedroom crockery, belches and body scratching, hogcalls and outhouses, a halfwit boy who picks his toes on the breakfast table and rubs his face with worms...
Years ago, in the old Savile Club in London, I heard the late Poet Laureate Dr. Bridges quote your limerick [TIME, March 27, April 24] in what seems a more perfect form -as a spoof on Berkeley, which of course...
...this, in the old days lusty, ingenious, scatterbrained. Wilder seeks to recapture in a period spoof that is just short of burlesque. He neatly touches his stock characters and classic antics with quaintness and whimsical fancy. At his best, he gives The Merchant of Yonkers the nostalgia as well as the noise of an oldfashioned German street band. Where most modern farces have a hard, alcoholic hilarity, The Merchant of Yonkers for two acts romps and lets fly with all the innocence of a pillow fight. One of the best casts of the season throws the pillows for all they...
...they had to be constantly different also. The one possible formula was: Don't have a formula; the one rule for success: Don't follow it up. Their last five shows explain what they mean. Jumbo was circus set to music, On Your Toes a spoof at ballet, Babes in Arms about kids in a depression world, I'd Rather Be Right a rubdown of F. D. R., I Married An Angel a pure extravaganza that started in Heaven and ended in Radio City...