The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Dec. 29, 1952

Two's Company (music & lyrics by Vernon Duke & Ogden Nash; sketches by Charles Sherman & Peter De Vries) brought Bette Davis back to Broadway after some 20 years in Hollywood. But even with her return to the stage marking her first real fling as a comic, it all proved more an occasion than an event. Though Two's Company is not up to sound revue standards, it would very likely prove a satisfying evening if Actress Davis were up to her role. She struggles valiantly, but a big-time revue is too new to her, and comedy doesn't come natural.

She is on...

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