Evening star., 1951-06-03
Dronno News and Reviews
FIops Win, by Al to 2,
Over Hits on Broadway
News and Reviews
Voriety's Summing Up of Season Shows
Comedies Were Best Money-Mokers
By Joy cormody


The theaer is three old today However
it has stirred birth. condition of
born drama seasons Sunday columns left with time for
final backward glance the theater just ended
Weekly Variety incredibly factual which learns
rearward venture Every year. the last week in May 1t sums up
the fate Of Broadway offerings nexible dollars and cents
encounters ST. Peter the heavenly gates his account books in
his hand and his expression judicialy fixed
It's No Surprise, Fops Always Win
follows: Hits Q; hops 4 unde-
termined, but still in there, z.
There is nothing in the nature of an upset Flops
always wn Often by larger than Al to is In the en
which except the
actual fall back the phosophc cushion that
South Pacific worth all the millions lost by other
producers.
This is of the why Broadway is called dream
street" of the best
The principal deduction be made from the seasons box
of plays which made those which is that
the drama in demand the ghhearted kind In other words
briefly unburden the soul and find little of the worlds
lost laughter.
1t Was Time for Comedy, Perhaps
Only moderately somber item Clifford odets Country
Girl made the list of musicals which dropped
into this years hproduction Otherwise almost
strictly based upon rvoy represented the moods
of Season Sum-" Candle" Guys and
Dolls Call Me Madam" Affairs The Blue" !"
Ladys Burning" and pquantly revival
Twentieth Century with Gloria Swanson and Jose Feer
In the consistent comedy in this list should inspire hum
farce, well audience moods
notoousy subject change At other time Darkness
at Noon the critics prize play might have crowded into the
the critics voting which ended the definite fops
Sidney Kngsleys award play still in the ndeermnae status
despite plaque although odds slightly eventual
climb into the black ink.
pair of other tatng items this remains to be seen"
list The King and T. which doubt will get where Pro-
Rodgers and Hammersten always and The Rose
Tattoo Tennessee Williams latest contribution to the heaer
Four Others Sort of Left Boses
"F1ahooey" Make Wish" and
Brooklyn expensive "Stalag II" hanging
of which they would like but certain
which way they will turn
dop a
Olivia Havlands Romeo and Juliet venture. This
being legitimate
productions the elaborate musical
The dollar disaster attributed by Variety Miss De Havands
first venture into New York estimated at $330000 figure
which the cynical when Hollywood enterprise
something. does bigger Broadway would dare
Another revival which itself with chagrin Green
Pastures whose optimistic producers reported being
100000 their venture
spite of this with this correspondent,
Mare Connolly who wrote the convinced that be
popularity profab. under what
that particular time.
Nothing Decisive Recorded by Adaptations
anticipation the season. enemies Of
this practice accounting did
quite decvy these expected although eight
of hits original the other Guys Dolls,
represented completely treatment of Damon Runyons
material.
After ALL those three astounding long
Pacific" Kiss Gentlemen Prefer Bonds
prove that quality adaptation that really counts
before that there another called "Oklahoma which
Broadway two-weeks but has settled
down instead to another long
it's unpredictable business for
the prediction that there will always be hop than hits
IL to perhaps melancholy ratio.