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...third act is highly hilarious, in spite of the aged device of the poor girl misplaying the Duchess. There is enough of the Shavian keenness and wit to make it one of the high spots of the play. It is in the part of the renovated Eliza displaying her new culture at tea that Miss Inescort retrieves her ostentatious display of vocal strength of the previous acts. Her highly phonetic and correct, "Not bloody likely" brings the act to a chaotic close...
...remaining two acts continue with a fair share of morality and wit, punctuated with several undeniable hints that Mr. Shaw could be quite sentimental if he could take his tongue out of his cheek long enough. But that would not be playing the part he has set aside for himself in all of his plays. So, in this play he ends with his usual quirk. There is a discourse on the evils of middle class morality, the verbose Doolittle is led to the noose of matrimony, Higgins returns to his phonetics, and Eliza remains a "good" girl...
With all due respect for the CRIMSON's editorial wit, therefore. I should occasionally like to see it directed into new fields. Resignedly. Coburn T. Wheeler...
...LOVE PARADE (Maurice Chevalier) -French wit on the backstairs of one of those Balkan palaces...
Sally (First National). The difference between a musical comedy on the stage and one on the screen is that the size of everything is doubled and its effectiveness cut in half. This is a photograph, in pink technicolor shades, of a show without much wit or any good new songs. It is partly redeemed by the expert dancing of Marilyn Miller. Best dance: "A Wild, Wild Rose...