Judge — February 1938 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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THE THEATRE B caries IT IS staggering just to think of the work, time and money that must have gone into the producing of Three Waltzes. That so much trouble should have been taken with such a pulse-slack- ening show seems rather sad, for one somehow expected better things of it. Gorgeous is the word for Connie De Pinna’s costumes and Watson Barratt’s settings, and it was these selfsame cos- tumes and sets that led one to believe that something pretty exciting in the way of action might happen after all. However, unless you're easily excited by warmed.over romances (romances warmed-up over the slow burning fires of three generations) there's disappoint. ment waiting for you inside the portals of the Majestic. Of course, there's al- ways the music. The music is almost as swell as the gowns, uniforms and sets, but so many Strausses and Strauses are mixed up with the score that to enumer- ate them would sound remarkably like an old Joseph Cawthorne skit, so take our word for it that those who like waltzes will like the music, and let's just let it go at that. The story in a nutshell (which is a better place for it than the stage of the Majestic) concerns the also warmed. over theme of the ballerina who gives the full-blooded Count back to his proud and haughty family, only to have her granddaughter marry his grandson sev- enty-two years later. There is much sing- ing salted through the play, but unless we're mistaken (and we probably are) it occurred to us during the performance that we'd heard tea kettles that sang bet- ter than some members of the cast. Kitty Carlisle, as the ballet girl, fits in well with the music in that people who like Kitty Carlisle will like her in this, her most recent effort. Michael Bart. lett, done up in gay uniforms, is an im. pressive Count Von Hohenbmnn, and Ann Andrews as the Baroness Delauney was catty enough to have strolled over for the evening from the near-by Barry- more Theatre. But it is to Glenn Anders (Page 44, please) The Judge comicbooks.com Bm ee a eS a a ee a