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...Richard Mason's bestselling novel, flounced into Boston dressed in Designer Jo Mielziner's spectacular sets -a revolving stage with great, gaudy panels that slide in and out, up and down, through dancing and disaster, life and death. The story line is distressing: boy meets Hong Kong "Yum-Yum girl," boy loves girl, girl loves boy, boy rejects girl, boy returns to girl (Yum Yum!) but cannot support her baby, girl walks out because she loves baby better, baby is killed in earthquake, boy helps pay for funeral. It is lovely, almond-eyed France Nuyen (the Liat...
...County, Conn, and fuses the inevitable melee between mufti and khaki. Among the participants in this guffawlderol: a club-car Pagliaccio otherwise known as "Harry Bannerman, boy adulterer" whose inability to make a heavy date with his civic-minded wife drives him to guilt-ridden sessions "of candlelight and yum-yum" with a sex-famished neighbor; the neighbor's absentee husband, a cigar-chomping titan of TV; an amiable, lovesick sheep in second lieutenant's clothing named Guido di Maggio ("Hey, di Maggio, let's play some ball"); di Mag's girl, a progressive schoolteacher...
Director Minnelli plays his game of pseudo-sociological croquet with the careless good form of a man who does not have to worry about making his satiric points. He plays for the box-office score instead, working the sex angles and the big names and the "production values" -yum-yum Metrocolor, flossy furniture, slinky clothes-with the skill of a cold old pro. The comedy is kept on a fairly low commercial plane too. The funniest line concerns a retired pugilist. "Who is that man with no nose?" asks wife Bacall suspiciously. "Oh, he has a nose," says husband Peck...
...Absinthe (yum); but most...
...Chartock's company treats Sullivan's music with equal taste. The principals have the support of an excellent chorus and orchestra, and when Lillian Murphy applies a clear lyric soprano of Yum-Yum's "The Sum Whose Rays," music shunts patter aside with great effect. Another celebrated import from D'Oyly Carte, Ella Halman is, as usual, a formidable "Daughter in Law Elect...