The Theater: New Revue In Manhattan, Oct. 16, 1950

Pardon Our French (produced by Ole Olsen & Chic Johnson) isn't nearly humble enough. Pardon Our Effrontery is the least it should entreat for, and there would be nothing intemperate about Pardon Our Existence. Olsen & Johnson, after achieving the utmost in noise and nuttiness with their Hellzapoppin cycle, have now plunged to the depths of unpalatable boredom. Adopting different and sedater tactics, abandoning the raucous for the merely raw, they have a way of making everything they touch turn to lead.

The milieu of their revue is FranceĀ—a France where every woman is...

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