The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: May 23, 1938

I Married An Angel (words & music by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; adapted from the play by John Vaszary; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) sent first-nighters home humming and happy, drew cheers next day from song-starved critics. The show is hardly as good as all that though for the marriage of the season's most ethereal stage bride, Producer Wiman has provided a shimmering trousseau reputed to have cost $125,000; several wardrobefuls of beautiful bright clothes, a pile of lacy, hand-embroidered stage sets by Jo Mielziner, plenty of Rodgers silver tunes.

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