Word: bambi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worker, became its foreign news editor, finally (while Cartoonist Robert Minor was listed at the top of the masthead) became its editor in fact. On the side he did translations. Two of his translations (from the German) were Franz Werfel's Class Reunion and Felix Salten's Bambi. In 1929, disturbed by reports of Stalin's heavy-handed tactics and stories of the first party purges, he quit the Worker and in defiance of party discipline lit out for the Midwest...
...lyrics have lost a good deal of their sparkle, and the book every last shred of its wit. Nor could Bambi Linn (Carousel), however pleasing a dancer, challenge the lustrous memory of the late Marilyn Miller. And though in Willie Howard Sally has a star, it seldom lets him shine. In the role originally played by Leon Errol, Howard talks twaddle that is too refined. Only here & there can he muscle out of the show-with some triumphantly low-down touch, or by singing variations on Look for the Silver Lining...
...people at the party also owed plenty to the birthday girl. For Choreographer Agnes de Mille and for Dick Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, she had set off a firecracker-string of Broadway successes. She had helped boost many of her onetime players (notably Celeste Holm, Joan McCracken, Bambi Linn, Mary Hatcher, Howard Da Silva, Pamela Britton, Alfred Drake) toward Broadway or Hollywood fame. And to her happy angels (among them: Producers Max Gordon and Lee Shubert, Playwright S. N. Behrman) she had paid...
...with Richard Addinsell's generally agreeable music, this Alice is no mere theatrical makeshift, but genuine make-believe. Outstanding episodes: The Pool of Tears, the Trial Scene, and Tweedledum & Tweedledee (whose joint recital of The Walrus and the Carpenter is neatly acted out with marionettes). As Alice, Bambi Linn (Oklahoma!, Carousel) has a true childlike charm, a Tenniel look, and a big-eyed, brow-furrowed wonderment...
Alice in Wonderland (Sun. 4 p.m., Mutual). With Eva Le Gallienne, Margaret Webster, Bambi Linn...