How I Wonder, a talky tract, rested the problems of an atomic world on the shoulders of a perturbed college professor (Raymond Massey). Playwright Donald Ogden Stewart failed to remember that talk should tingle, scenes should crackle and people should breathe. Seldom have so many dilemmas yielded so little drama.
Music in My Heart, an operetta based on the life of Tchaikovsky and performed in the Blossom Time tradition, helped itself to a double portion of some lovely melodies and some tired theatrical cliches.
Under the Counter, a musical with a two-year London run to recommend it, starred 54-year-old Cicely Courtneidge, a...
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