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...least say that the current producers have displayed genuine originality in their attempt to find a new star. They have given the male lead (the role played previously by Russell Nype--that of assistant to the lady ambassador) to Dick Button '52, who up to now has been far less distinguished as an actor than as a world champion figure skater. The original Lindsay & Crouse script for Call Me Madam said nothing whatever about ice skating, but this difficulty has not fazed producers G. Sheldon Balloch and Clifford N. Lenox in the least. They have simply interpolated a couple...
...Jerry Brown was faced with the dilemma which occurs in G. and S.--that the romantic hero tends towards insipidity compared with the comic hero, who always holds the audience's primary interest. Brown overcame this dilemma partially by playing the role for laughs in a rather moonstruck, Russel Nype manner...
...season of high promise with a 90-minute version of the 1943 Broadway musical, One Touch of Venus. Janet Blair had the tiptoe grace required of a goddess awakened after slumbering for thousands of years in marble; Kurt Weill's pleasant music occasionally gave the show levitation; Russell Nype and George Gaynes struggled bravely against the shackling grasp of the heavyhanded plot. But Venus underlined the fact that once a Broadway musical is robbed of its racy dialogue and incident, there is little left...
Spectacular (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). One Touch of Venus; with Janet Blair, Russell Nype...
...handed out its own laurels, the American Theater Wing's Antoinette Perry Awards, for the season's best work up to March 1. Best musical: Guys and Dolls. Best play: Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo. Other "Tonys" went to: Irving Berlin, Ethel Merman and Newcomer Russell Nype (for Call Me Madam); Uta Hagen (The Country Girl); Claude Rains (Darkness at Noon...