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Hello, Daddy! Ever since Betty Starbuck was seen partaking in the frivolities of the Garrick Gaieties, there have been those who regarded her as among the most pleasing of sarcastic heroines; yet she never received her due. She does not receive it now, in Hello Daddy!, though with Billy Taylor and Lew Fields, the publicized star of the show, she does all kinds of things that are engaging. Lew Fields produced the piece; his son, Herbert (Connecticut Yankee) Fields, wrote the book; his daughter, Dorothy (Blackbirds) Fields, wrote the lyrics...
...from Charles Petit's novel. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee. Helen Ford as Chee-Chee and Betty Starbuck as Li-Li-Wee were respectively arch and charming. George Hassell squealed and grunted in cagey fashion as the Grand Eunuch. Chee-Chee would be funnier if it did not so faithfully preserve its "you're mine and I love you" attitude toward the slimy joke of compulsory castration...
West 46th St. If "Oh Kay" wasn't in town this would be be best musical comedy there. But even "Oh Kay" hasn't got Betty Starbuck. She's a riot on roller skates. And you should see that chorus dance. It's the nearest thing to perfect in New York. Hart, Rogers, and Fields wrote the show; and that would be enough recommendation even if Helen Ford and Lulu McConnell weren...
...Cinderella in love with a penniless prince, falls asleep, dreams a crazy romance of department store and Cuban summer resort adventure. Helen Ford and Lester Cole sing the song hits, "In His Arms," "A Tree in the Park." Lulu McConnell, stylish stout comedienne, Charlestbns, croons, while pretty Betty Starbuck, as a clownish brat, keeps the audience a-roaring...
...plays as yet not in New York but expected during the vacation those showing greatest promise are: Mozart by and with Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printenups; and Peggy by Rogers-Hart Fields, and with Helen Ford, Luin McConnell, and Betty Starbuck. This latter combination rivals all others in the musical comedy line...