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HELLO DOLLY! is an effusive, gladhanding, toe-bounding musical, set in turn-of-the-century Manhattan. Carol Channing is the superwoman, and she acts and sings like a cat that has swallowed...
HELLO DOLLY! is an effusive, gladhanding, toe-bounding musical set in turn-of-the-century Manhattan. Carol Channing is the evening's superwoman, and she acts and sings like a cat that has swallowed...
...course, they insured Olivia de Hav-illand's jaw and Durante's nose, but what Lloyd's of London likes to cover best is a pair of legs. First they took on Grable's gams, then insured Marlene Dietrich from toe to thigh. Now Angle Dickinson, 32, Captain Newman M.D.'s favorite nurse, has got a policy on her props. Her studio thinks they're worth $1,000,000, or about $15,000 per well-turned inch. Nice round figure...
...hurry. He yawns a lot, and he never stands when he can sit. He is taking five years to finish college. He has trouble keeping his weight down, and he still runs pigeon-toed-so much so that he is forever stabbing himself ("usually in the big toe") with his own half-inch-long track spikes...
...bowler, a pinstripe, suit that conceals his bowlegs, nylon underwear that crackles when he walks, and a small "pied a terre" (or, foot in the grave) in Kensington. He learns the sales spiel handily enough ("A beautiful shoe, madam, seamless uppers, a discreet buckle and a soft dimple toe, and for a foot like yours with so little adhesion between the phalanges of the toe and the metatarsal joint . . ."), but he is desperately unhappy. Bernard has no friends. He burns with hopeless, timid lusts. He lingers before the posters advertising "Running Without a Stitch, a documentary record of the nudists...