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Although this was only his team's first loss in the 25 game series the teams will play Abe Saperstein, the Globetrotter owner-coach was very worried. For he knows as well as anyone else that the people who filled up Boston Garden Monday night were far from avid basketball fans. It was a nondescript crowd, composed mainly of people who wanted to have a good time, see a few good shots, and which some fancy passing and dribbling...
Silk Stockings (music & lyrics by Cole Porter; book by George S. Kaufman Leueen MacGrath and Abe Burrows) spent three spotlighted months on the road pitching things out and patching things up. It will probably spend many months longer on Broadway. The reason is not that it offers anything unusual in the way of merit or novelty; it seems almost frightened of anything distinguished. The reason lies rather in a formula professionalism, a kind of glazed mediocrity, a persisting common touch that, here and there, is a touch too common. Silk Stockings is all Main Stem and no flower...
...tomorrow evening, the curtain will rise on a new musical comedy entitled Silk Stockings. There will be a full house, of course--there is always a full house at Broadway openings when the play has been created by such big names a Feuer and Martin George S. Kaufman, Abe Burrows, Cole Porter, and Jo Mielziner. The aura of a big hit will...
...score which, despite a jukebox hit called "All of You," is still indisputably inferior to his previous successes. And the book, a parody on Soviet ways adapted from the famous Greta Garbo movie Ninotchka, has undergone so much scene-shuffling and rewriting at the hands of co-author Abe Burrows that at one point he eliminated the title song itself. Thus, whereas most musicals play four weeks in just one try-out city, Silk Stockings has played three months in three different locations. Names like Feuer and Martin have produced full houses all along, but the extended try-out runs...
...George Kaufman and his wife Leueen McGrath, co-authors of Silk Stockings, had just seen the show in Boston after several weeks of absence from the troupe withdrawing from the production. Kaufman has never made clear whether he did not like the show in Boston or simply thought that Abe Burrows had re-written it too extensively. Burrows' name, which was added to the bill at that time, has not hurt ticket sales, but news of the Kaufman's withdrawal has; even yesterday the show's press representative refused to talk about the incident...