Pearl Bailey is back and Dolly has got her. Or vice versa. Either way the jaunty matchmaker from Yonkers and the sly, ironic, purring Pearl suit each other perfectly. Although Hello, Dolly!
has been running in Manhattan for almost four years, she and an all-Negro cast had lines forming at the box office last week.
Decked out in dazzling exaggerations of turn-of-the-century elegance, topped off with such hats as dreams are made of, she struts and swaggers new pizazz into the undistinguished material that Carol Channing, Betty Grable, Martha Raye and Ginger Rogers have done so well by. The Bailey way...
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