Let's Face It! (book by Herbert & Dorothy Fields; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Vinton Freedley) is the first musical of the season to stir the critics to half-hysterical admiration. The show, a good routine musical, didn't fully rate it, but its headliner, mop-haired, magic-tongued Danny Kaye, did. Last season, in Lady in the Dark, he was almost brand-new to Broadway, but he would have stolen the show from any one less than Gertrude Lawrence. In Let's Face It! (for which he up & quit Lady) he rides off with the...
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