Yokel Boy (music & lyrics by Lew Brown, Charlie Tobias, Sam H. Stept; produced by Lew Brown). Yokel Boy turns loose a lot of lively entertainers and a superior chorus strung along on the feeblest of books.
Tale of a Lexington, Mass, pair of yokels whose romance is interrupted when a movie company invades the town and carries the girl to Hollywood, the show tells how Boy Beats Girl in an extra-inning moving-pitchers' duel.
If Yokel Boy occasionally makes fun of Hollywood, more often it imitates it. The show's bright particular absurdity is its...
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