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Given that the word "Theatrical" implies things pertaining to the theatre, I might suspect that these Hasty Pudding people want to entertain us. Put a song in our hearts, a laugh in our throats, and a tap in our toes. This, I have been told, is what the Hasty Pudding is all about-and so I tell you, for on the evidence of their show alone, you just might not guess what these people...
...recent months (and that says a hell of a lot). It is roughly a combination of No, No Nanette! and Satyricon. The costumes are out-of-this-world in their vulgar beauty, to the point of becoming eerie; female chorines turn out to be men; a sprightly tap-dance number turns out to express one character's perception of how he hates himself...
...Pennsylvanian tried a traditional strategy to win. Starting Mary "Skyscraper" Dash, 7' 5", at center, the Pennsylvanian won the tap and went into a stall, playing for the last shot...
That is not what No, No Nanette does, but nostalgia is the impetus of the evening. Nostalgia is rampant in the presence of Ruby Keeler, 60, who emerges as a warmly appealing personality and dances with a valiant nimbleness. Nostalgia propels the tap-Rockette sequences of the Busby Berkeley chorus, with its mass assembly-line dance routines supervised by the 75-year...
...syndicated conservative, that's when. Last week Buckley filed a federal suit challenging the requirement that he belong to a performers' union in order to appear on the air. The union in question is the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which includes actors, tap dancers-and news anchor men, among others...