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With stage directors, she has the same serious, hard-working approach. Garson Kanin, who directed Fledermaus, suggested that a splendid effect could be achieved if Pat could hold an A while climbing a flight of steps, ending it dramatically as she reached a balcony. Oh no, said Pat, "that would be practically impossible." But when Kanin arrived for rehearsal next day, he found her standing at the foot of the steps, biting her lip and concentrating. Then she ran up the stairs, high-noting it all the way. She doubted whether she could do the same thing in costume...
Howard Dietz and Garson Kanin did not even try to follow the original text in their new English version. Using the fantastic plot as a framework, they packed both the dialogue and songs with as many jokes, double entendres, and Ogden Nashian rhymes as possible. Combining sex, satire, and slapstick, Dietz and Kanin have produced a vehicle which should become one of the most popular items on the Metropolitan's repertoire, despite its dubious artistic significance...
ALASKA A Pole at the Pole? Every child firmly believes that the North Pole is tall, striped like a barber pole, and has a ball on top. Stan Garson, an oil rigger at Alaska's Point Barrow, hated to surrender this fancy. In the long Alaskan days & nights, he got to brooding. "All there is at the North Pole is some latitude and longitude,* he complained. "We really ought to have a pole...
...still the amusing story of a pair of elegant swindlers preying on a group of social snobs who turn out to be just as fraudulent, in their own way, as the crooks. The culprits team up in Victorian London, where one is the perfect lady's maid (Greer Garson), the other a scampish, penniless aristocrat (Michael Wilding). Moving on to gullible San Francisco, where wealthy climbers are eager to fawn on English nobility, the maid passes for a marchioness and the blue blood for the perfect butler. Their plans go awry, and the comedy shifts from drawing room...
...last reel or two, The Law and the Lady falters under the weight of romantic complications that Hollywood has piled on the Lonsdale original. Until then, however, it breezes along pleasantly. The lines are bright, the style brittle. Actor Wilding and Actress Garson (unaccountably wearing a black wig) make a suave and charming pair of scoundrels...