The Red Mill (music by Victor Herbert; book & lyrics by Henry Blossom; produced by Paula Stone & Hunt Stromberg Jr.) has never before been revived on Broadway since it first nourished there starring Montgomery & Stonein 1906. There was no overpowering reason for reviving it now. The Victor Herbert music is nice but hardly notable. The book, jokes and horseplay are not only antiquated for 1945 but were probably no better than average for 1906. Yet this production has the disarming trait of not trying to bridge the years. It makes no effort...
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