Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their services to the Met that evening. Paul Jaretzki had some special drag somewhere and had been assigned the task of doing out supernumerary jobs to undergraduates here. Anyone who would buy him a beer or promise him a scotch could get a little card admitting him to the stage door of the Metropolitan Theatre on the evening of the performance...
...together. Unfortunately, we boasted of our Three Marx Brothers ideas too widely and told several people of our intention to experiment with unusual sound vibrations by applying our spears to the sopranos. Someone must have tipped off the Met, because we were given different costumes and separated on the stage...
...three artists stand out in one's mind, against a confused background of innumerable oil and wateronlor landscapes. Among these Holabird is perhaps the most noteworthy. In his stage sets, both for Pinero's "The Magistrates" and Aristophanes' "Peace," in his savage woodcuts on the social scene in the year 1941, and in his watercolors and cartoons he demonstrates a remarkable creative imagination, a sharpened awareness and a mastery of diverse techniques...
...songs, almost the same cast, the identical story, and none of the zip that made the original the hit it was. As a matter of fact, this close adherence to the original probably accounts for a large part of the film's weakness; long scenes don't ruin a stage-play, but when they're translated literally on the screen, they become tiresome. And "Louisiana Purchase" has so many of them that even the actors are tired when it's all over...
When it comes to who's missing from the cast, the big gap is the absence of Carol Bruce, who put over a number of songs in the stage original. Paramount has dug up somebody named Donna Drake to fill in for her. Donna looks like Carol, all right, but that's all, and what were hit tunes on the stage are flops here. The other songs are effectively handled, although some of the best ones, especially "It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow," are either left out or merely used as background music...