As much Broadway landmarks as shows are Life with Father, Oklahoma!, The Voice of the Turtle. Other dramatic highlights:
Born Yesterday. Amusing yarn about a big-shot racketeer who decides to have his dumb blonde educated and picks too good a teacher (TIME, Feb. 18).
O Mistress Mine. Lunt & Fontanne, still their incomparably cavorting selves as a British Cabinet Minister and a widow living in gay, sumptuous sin (TIME, Feb. 4).
Show Boat. Still a topflight musicomedy, with probably the best-loved of all musicomedy scores (TIME, Jan. 14).
Pygmalion. Gertrude Lawrence as G.B.S.'s cockney flower girl who mended her speech as a way to...
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