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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (book by Joseph Fields & Anita Loos; music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Leo Robin) lets the famous Lorelei Lee of the '20s gold-dig once more-this time to music. The blonde is played by Carol Channing, who last season rocketed from nowhere to minor fame...
Strapping (5 ft. 9 in.) Actress Channing herself represents a triumph of miscasting. She can be a very funny female indeed, but in Blondes she suggests the football-playing "heroine" of a varsity show more than the deceptively fragile Lorelei. With her tremendous saucer eyes, her exaggerated mincing steps, her...
Thanks to Comedienne Channing's song numbers and to some fast, youthful Agnes de Mille dance routines, the show achieves an air of liveliness in places. What it never achieves is any real feeling of the '20s, or the right nostalgia for them.
Metropole (by William Walden; produced by Max Gordon) was a short-lived satiric farce which tried to poke fun at The New Yorker magazine and its fabulous editor, Harold W. Ross. Calling the magazine Metropole and the editor Frederick M. Hill, it depicted the wacky office life of a well...
Metropole suggested that a Ross by any other name is just no Ross at all; nor, despite Lee Tracy's expert performance, any real fun. Besides shackling The New Yorker to a leaden plot, it spoofed it with a stridency better suited to the old Police Gazette. Metropole did...