Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprise comes from Richard Rodgers, who invades the domain which used to be the exclusive property of Jerome Kern and Sigmund Romberg. Instead of his usual racy tomfoolery and querulous laments, Rodgers has turned out a score that would be superb if it didn't sound as if it were from Kern...
Oscar Hammerstein deserves a rose crossed with a scallion for his superb lyrics and clumsy adaptation. The Theater Guild deserves a loud cheer for beating the Shuberts at their own forte...
Even the supporting cast does an unusually creditable job. Paul Henreid of "Now Voyager" fame does a sympathetic job on a Czech patriot, and handles his anti-fascist speeches with meritable tact. Claude Rains is a superb Vichy superintendent of police, while Conrad Veidt does an excellent job on a stock Hollywood character--the Gestapo chief...
...sensed it in the "domestic war" fought in the various war boards in Washington. "It is silly to say New Dealers run this war show. It's run largely by absentee owners of amalgamated industrial wealth . . . for the most part decent, patriotic Americans . . . giving to the American people superb service. If you touch them in nine relations of life out of ten they are kindly, courteous, Christian gentlemen. But in the tenth relation they are . . . mad, ruthless . . . determined to come out of this war victors for their own stockholders-which is not surprising...
Last week's deadline prevented getting in the news about the jam session at the Hotel Bradford this past Sunday. (It was half good and half bad.) Assets: Coleman Hawkin's superb tenoring, the tremendous drive of Pete Brown's alto, and J. C. Higginbotham's tromboning. Debits poor acoustics which murdered the ensembles, and Red Allen's attempts to be entertaining and run the whole show. Another session will be held soon, and we promise to let you know this time...