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Comes Love (Artie Shaw; Bluebird) Most tuneful version of the most tuneful number of Yokel Boy, new Lew Brown musical...
Three hours and a half of musical comedy is too much in any league, and when caught last Monday night Lew Brown's "Yokel Boy Makes Good" at the Shubert, ran to this length. The show, however, was pretty good, and with judicious pruning it might well turn into a smash hit. It has tunes; "A Boy Named Lem, and a Girl Named Sue" is far from corny and there were several others which may break into the summer Hit Parade...
...made about a boy and a girl and a dike. Rubbish, we discover in the first scene, is filming the Battle of Lexington and, always a stickler for accuracy, the scene is filmed in Lexington, Mass. There live such citizens as Buddy Ebsen--you guessed it, he's the Yokel Boy--Lois January, Judy Canova and other individuals who by the middle of the first act have all wandered out to Hollywood and are more or less occupied in Rubbish's Colossal Studios...
...plot is woven about the slim thread of the Yokel Boy's success in Hollywood and his sweetheart's -- Miss January -- failure therein. Thin though it is, the story might easily support a shorter play with the aid of its already first-rate score, its lavish settings, and its nifty costumes. By this time it's probably a good show...
...rope to a wagon, dances with Mary Todd, generally establishes himself as a capable, dryly humorous, lonely citizen. Then the trial takes over, for three reels of howling prairie jurisprudence, wry Lincoln homespun and Hollywood crossexamination. Only at the fade-out is there a hint that this gangly local yokel is headed anywhere. "Just going up the hill a piece," says he, parting from a companion and up he goes, into a lowering thunderstorm...