THE great debate between the English and the American musical
continues. I had thought that the transatlantic competitor had gone down for the count with Pal They, but here he is coming up lighting in a story of two simple mid-western girls settling down to live in Greenwich Village, which, as I need hardly tell my cosmopolitan readers, is the part of New York where people write and paint and things (you know : the Bohemian part). There are two sisters, one plain, one pretty, and
anyone's guess is as good as mine as to the use made of this in the plot. Pat Kirkwood brings a great deal of charm and too many good looks for realism to the part of the ugly sister, and Shani Wallis makes the pretty one something to remember. The music, lyrics and production do not succeed in dispelling by their slickness the atmosphere of naive charm which is the key-note of this musical. Needless to say everything ends in the happiest way pos- sible, and it is just the thing for almost any evening out.
ANTHONY HARTLEY
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