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Show the world who can slug. The professional cast of 42 boasts no big-name comedian, and the script (though written by Owen Murphy and Peter Barry, who have gagged for Joe Cook and Ed Wynn) boasts hardly a laugh. Says one spokesman: "The show's not meant to be amusing; it's very much like christening a new gun for the Navy...
...comic can hit even a gag-loving nation between the eyes. Gags are too brassy, fleeting, unvisual. The true clown or jester tops the gag man by being both a richly eccentric character and a vividly expressive type-Chaplin is The Little Man, Durante The Wild Man, Ed Wynn The Perfect Fool. Hope has no eccentric character; but by giving his gags dramatic value he made himself a type-the dumb wise guy, the quaking braggart, the lavish tightwad. But this type somehow dissolves into a far broader and more significant one-thanks to his vibrant averageness, Hope...
...Wynn's new revue begins August 30. Sanders Theatre Concerts Boston Symphony Orchestra Second Programme, July 25 Under the direction of Bernard Zighera Toccata, Bouree, and GigaScarlatti-Casella Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major Shubert I. Allegro II. Andante con moto III. Menuetto: Allegro molto: Trio IV. Allegro vivace Pavane pour une Infante defunte Ravel Capriccio Ibert Suite No. 1 from "Pulcinella," Ballet (after Pergolesi) Stravinsky I. Sinfonia (Overture): Allegro moderate II. Serenata: Larghetto III. a. Scherzino b. Allegro c. Andantino IV. Tarantella V. Toccatta VI. Gavotta con due variazionl VII. Duetto VIII. a. Menuetto b. Finale Third Programme...
...Shows of Yesteryear. Between 1907 and 1927 the Follies had just about everybody: Mae Murray, Ina Claire, Nora Bayes, Ed Wynn, Ann Pennington, Marion Davies, Marilyn Miller, George White, Leon Errol, Raymond Hitchcock, the Dolly Sisters, Van & Schenck, Moran & Mack. Among the Follies song writers were Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml, Irving Berlin. In one edition or another, Fanny Brice choked throats with My Man, Gilda Gray upped blood pressures with her shimmy, Bill Fields played his ludicrous game of pool, Gallagher & Shean hurled countrywide their most famous song...
...general result is hilarious. The show is built like a house of cards but somehow stays up. Its top scenes are its burlesque-show rehearsals: rusty-voiced Joey Faye and Keenan Wynn (son of Ed) ribbing an old gag routine; Billy Koud as a gaunt, lugubrious director illustrating for the chorines how he wants them to dance; legsome Jean Carter doing an all-out strip tease with an openmouthed rookie drummer way off-beat for her "bumps...