Word: waltzed
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...Britain's soldiers have doggedly caroled two onetime U.S. favorites, the Beer Barrel Polka and South of the Border. But lately a British song from World War I, Bless 'Em All, has been dusted off, is sung with a will by Britons of all classes. In waltz time, it goes...
Doffing her slippers for comfort but keeping on her negligee for safety, she demonstrated to three eager CRIMSON reporters the intricacies of the tango and the modern waltz. "That boy who danced with me out at Harvard was pretty good," she confessed...
...name in flowers on the floor (actually it is just Brother, assisting the family poesy). Brother (Eugene Loring) writes "books"-each consisting of a single pregnant word. One "book" reads "tree." He can also "hear" another vagrant brother in New York playing Paul Whiteman's old waltz, Wonderful One, on the cornet. A shy official arrives, bent on canceling the pension check, but is so beglamored by the fey, bemused life of the household that he arranges to have the payments continued. An old laborer and the parish priest gather round for a drink and contemplation of the universe...
Almost anyone of sensibility is a pushover for old waltz songs on the cornet, and Saroyan is a master of many similar nostalgias. Their potency keeps The Beautiful People from being merely the old charmy game, played by an expert. For, notwithstanding its whimsical deadweight, the inventive, germinal quality in Saroyan is one of the most fertile forces in the U.S. Theater...
...anything but gay. If it were the former it would have to be fast-moving and tuneful, since by definition a musical comedy is both of these. But instead of restricting itself to one mood the picture tries to combine the gay lightheartedness of the City of the Waltz with the sad impecuniosity of Franz Schubert, the unappreciated genius...