Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: May 31, 1937

Room Service (by John Murray & Allen Boretz; George Abbott, producer) does for shoestring theatrical producing what Producer Abbott's Boy Meets Girl did for Hollywood and his Three Men On A Horse did for horse racing. It pumps its subject full of fun in veterinary doses. Than this pinchbeck legend of Longacre Square, there is no funnier show in town.

Veteran theatre people and veteran theatre goers will particularly relish the venality, innocence, hope and cynicism of such a character as Gordon Miller (Sam Levene), who once produced a great show on a...

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