The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 29, 1932

Face the Music is a timely, satirical musicomedy which ordains itself to laugh and sing away the Depression. Scene I discloses a host of newly pauperized millionaires lunching gaily at the Automat, while a sightly chorus chants: See Mr. Whitney passing by, Putting mustard on a Swiss-on-Rye . . . There's Mrs. William Randolp Hearst, Saying, "That's my place I got there first!"

Written by Moss Hart and directed by George S. Kaufman, two genuinely funny men who collaborated on Once In A Lifetime, Face the Music's showmanlike libretto spares few phases of the...

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