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SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING, a new musical comedy by Jule Styne, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green, at the Colonial...
...Brown held a backers' audition for his musical before the entire U.S. on TV's Today show, got so many pledges that he sent back a surplus $160,000 to would-be investors (November). The newest collaboration of Betty Comden and Adolf Green (with music by Jule Styne) is Subways Are for Sleeping, starring Charlie Chaplin's second son, Sydney...
...shut itself away behind ten-ton closed doors, but cafe society and show business people were plentiful as palms. Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis turned up as guests of Joe Kennedy, Zsa Zsa Gabor was visiting the automotive Dodges (Gregg and Horace), and a string of parties greeted Jule Styne, composer of Broadway...
...book by Garson Kanin; music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green) has certainly its good things-though not enough to make it a good musical. Its top draws, Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker, greatly compensate for how little else-actually, just the best lyrics-is top drawer. But other things prove of use; and the general setup-Silvers as a little man aching to be a big shot and inducing some old slot-machine racketeers to muscle in on jukeboxes-has a promisingly raffish...
...writing in the spirit of disappointment. Speaking for Betty Comden, my collaborator on the book and lyrics of Bells Are Ringing, and Jule Styne, our composer-collaborator, I can truthfully say that we are generally pleased with your highly favorable notice of the movie version of our show...