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...musical is still the medium where Producer Zanuck is most at home. Although he dropped his sparkling early tongue-in-cheek technique (Thanks a Million) in favor of opulence, he still knows how to keep the good songs ringing clear...
Most theatrical of U. S. gallery showmen is the Baltimore Museum's dark-haired, homely Leslie Cheek, who putters around in a paint-spattered sweat shirt thinking up ways to startle Baltimoreans into appreciating art. Last week more than 1,000 expectant people crowded the museum to see Director Cheek's latest show. They were not disappointed. While a small string orchestra played Viennese waltzes and items from Gilbert & Sullivan, visitors gaped at 1) photographs and movies illustrating the history and technique of sculpture, 2) plaster casts and bronzes under blue and green spotlights, 3) in a basement...
Aside from a somewhat lavender pallor of cheek which no doctor could remove, Wescott's fresh start is clean and real. It also shows that for some young writers their expatriate decade was not wasted...
...caught up is the picture in its own hysteria, that it overlooks the fact that the pastor never fights. Not once did he even strike a strom trooper. Not once did he exhort his parishioners to do so. He is the "turn-the-other-cheek" type of Christian. Yet Jimmy Roosevelt ('37) tries to transmute this inspiring figure into a little tin Christ. If it weren't so ominous, we could afford to laugh...
Besides the jokes, Miss Hughes' only other criticism falls on Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Ague cheek who hardly exploited "the robust comedy elements of the play" I take it that Miss Hughes feels badly that the lines did not crackle like those, say, out of "Panama Hattie." I don't think Shakespeare meant them to. Toby's humor is more mellow than witty. It belongs, just as he does, to old and merry England...