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...show's jinks, in fact, that they almost render unimportant the primitiveness of its jesting; and so engaging are a number of its people that it doesn't too much matter what they do. As staged by George Abbott and Jerome Robbins, The Pajama Game is a smash-hit mixture of racehorse and explosive; not in a long time has any musical so merely competent seemed at the same time...
Jazz albums were fairly esoteric items until 1950, when Columbia's first Benny Goodman collection made a smash success. Since then, a dozen new jazz labels have sprung up (mostly on the West Coast), and by last week the major record companies were up to their spiral grooves in the hot and the cool. On its new "X" label, RCA issued ten LPs, first of a whopping series of 100 LPs dubbed from "vault originals...
...Menzies told an astonished Parliament that Petrov had been Russia's MVD chief in Australia, had headed an elaborate spy ring involving several Australian nationals. How did the Prime Minister know? Vladimir Petrov had defected to the West, bringing with him hundreds of documents that would serve to smash the spy apparatus completely...
...performance was a decided improvement, but hardly a smash. The story line was draggy, and the score was short of the big arias Italian audiences love. Most startling of all, perhaps, was the reform and regeneration of daughter Salome, who, in Mortari's version, winds up trying to save her poor victim. John the Baptist, and earning her own salvation...
...called The Golden Apple (TIME, March 22) is playing to full houses. The Phoenix, according to Founders Norris Houghton and T. Edward Hambleton, was organized last fall so that established show people could occasionally get away "from the frenzied tailoring process that must turn every undertaking into a 'smash hit.' " For its first production, Madam, Will You Walk, the Phoenix hired Broadway's Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, paid them $100 a week apiece. The play ran successfully for six weeks, after a capital outlay of $15,000. Next, Houghton and Hambleton put on Shakespeare...