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...Cellini's amorous escapades rank as high in history as his creations of art; Max Gordon's current version may not be authentic, but it is lavish, tasteful theatre, literally bulging at the seams in an effulgent abundance of talent. Ira Gershwin's witty lyrics match the temper of Weill's music well, and Maurice Abravahel gets racing vitality from the orchestra. Catherine Littlefield has met the choreography assignment with dancing that whips merrily along at a tingling clip. Raoul Pene DuBois prepared dazzling costumes, Jo Mielziner splendiferous settings, and to top it all off, the staging was handled...
Other expatriate Manhattan intellectuals along wooded South Mountain Road felt equally bitter, if not so poetic. Among them: Artist Henry Varnum Poor, Cartoonist Milton Caniff (Terry & the Pirates), Composer Kurt Weill (Lady in the Dark). So did Helen Hayes, who lives down the river a way. So did several hundred less glamorous citizens-Italian and Polish truck gardeners behind the Hudson Highlands, and rock-ribbed Republicans who peacefully dairy-farm and grow cauliflower in the blue Catskill hills. Each did something about it in his own way: Playwright Anderson used his $180 from the New Yorker as a campaign contribution...
...girl: Constance Dowling who, besides singing likably enough, has the high surface gloss and hardness of a Dutch tile. Carmen Amaya, who has nothing to do with the plot, dances powerfully, continues to convey passion by making faces as if her partner had just trod on her corns. Kurt Weill's score has moments notably the gay-sad September Song, that suggest his great Die Dreigroschenoper...
Best is Composer Kurt Weill (Lady in the Dark, Knickerbocker Holiday...
...Touch of Venus (book by S. J. Perelman & Ogden Nash; music & lyrics by Kurt Weill & Ogden Nash; produced by Cheryl Crawford...