New Musical in Manhattan

Two For The Show (sketches & lyrics by Nancy Hamilton, music by Morgan Lewis; produced by Gertrude Macy & Stanley Gilkey). Tap-happy and tuneful, Two For The Show popped open like a bottle of champagne with a skit on The Man Who Came To Dinner. From then on an ebullient cast banged, blared, danced and gabbed merrily into first-night favor. Richard Haydn, who can imitate a fish, gave an imitation of a Cockney lecturer on cookery; as he sucked in his "h's" he almost showed his gills. Blonde Betty Hutton, ballyhooed as "America's No. 1 Jitterbug," shook the props, finally brought down the house in a whirlwind song & dance entitled "Little Miss Muffett." Heady if not flooring, the revue's charm and occasional brilliance recalled the pleasant vintage of its predecessor One For The Money (TIME, Feb. 13, 1939).

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