New Musical in Manhattan

As the Girls Go (music & lyrics by Jimmy McHugh & Harold Adamson; book by William Roos; produced by Michael Todd) sends a woman to the White House in 1953, and Bobby Clark along as her husband. While the Chief Executive (Irene Rich) is busy deliberating, her husband goes bounding about in costumes of all periods and professions, instructing infant buglers, presiding at tea parties, opening sporty beach clubs, receiving unorthodox degrees, making nonsense of politics and mincemeat of protocol. So highly placed, Bobby naturally encounters many fine-looking women to leer at and linger among: indeed, his wife's political enemies plant them in his path, hoping--in vain-- for scandal.

As the Girls Go is not political satire, no Of Thee I Sing. It's a straight Broadway show, an old-fashioned Mike Todd evening--the girls as beautiful as he could get, the gags as broad as he could get away with. Taken by itself, it's altogether ordinary. But it does have pep and the sense to let the plot go hang; and, with massive assistance from one of the funniest fellows in show business, it proves a thoroughly cheerful evening.

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