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...always had a hankering to go on the stage," said Nancy Wiman, debutante bit-player in the current Boston musical hit "Stars in Your Eyes" when interviewed in the dining room of the Ritz Hotel where she is staying during the show's Boston run. Miss Wiman confessed that, after a day's experience across the footlights, she was "simply crazy about the theatre...
Great Lady (produced by Dwight Deere Wiman & J. H. Del Bondio). Only the most rabid Manhattan sightseers have toiled uptown to inspect the handsome, aged Jumel Mansion. Great Lady is a "biography with music'' of the mansion's former chatelaine, high-stepping Madame Eliza Jumel. From being put in the stocks for misbehaving in Providence, R. I., Eliza went on to dally with a French cavalier, marry a French businessman, almost whisk Napoleon to the U. S. after Waterloo, curtsy before Louis XVIII of France and make a second marriage, late in life, with Aaron Burr...
Everybody knows that Washington Street is Broadway's guinea pig, thus it is superfluous to say that Dwight Wiman's "Great Lady" ran twenty-seven minutes overtime last night, that the first two numbers get the show off to a very slow start, that in several of the chorus numbers the singing is off cue and inaudible, or, that the show "has the makings of" this or that...
Such criticism is worthless, and a musical should be judged not with vague phrases of pseudo-theatrical appreciation but from the point of view of entertainment alone. In entertainment Mr. Wiman has scored again; like "I Married an Angel," "Great Lady" has the gay, colorful, humorous touch that springs only from the talent of a master in the art of musical production...
...middle of Act II, Producer Wiman suddenly tosses Budapest into the Danube, lights out for Manhattan, hotchas up Broadway and gives the signal for all kinds of people to rush in where angels fear to tread. The slightly incongruous result wakes up a drowsing show with the black coffee of a burlesque on a Radio City Music Hall routine, introduced by the song At the Roxy Music Hall...