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Arms and the Girl (book by Herbert & Dorothy Fields & Rouben Mamoulian; music by Morton Gould; lyrics by Dorothy Fields; produced by the Theatre Guild in association with Anthony Brady Farrell) can thank its stars that they are its stars. For Broadway's Nanette Fabray and the Continent's Georges Guetary, together with Singing Comedienne Pearl Bailey, have the charm and personality to make Arms and the Girl a good deal better evening than it is a show...
There is nothing very awful about the show; it's just that there is nothing particularly good. Morton Gould's music falls agreeably enough on the ear, but little of it will ever haunt the memory. Michael Kidd's dances have a lively but not unfamiliar spin. Adapted from 1933's The Pursuit of Happiness, the book, for something with history as well as humor on its mind, does fairly well, but it is only a book, and a much too bulky...
...Covenant, by Morton Thompson. The tragic life of Hungarian Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, discoverer of the cause of childbed fever, as told in a sometimes awkward, always sincere novelized version (TIME...
Unusual in the varsity event were the double touches scored in the epee matches while using an electric epee timed for one twenty-fifth of a second. Two of these were scored by Morton in obtaining a draw...
Foils: Vera won 2, lost 1; Frankmann 2-1; Sollee 0-3. Saber; Carter 3-0; Gay 1-2, Levine 0-3. Epee Overholser 2-1, Morton 1/2-2 1/2, Smith...