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<text>
<title>
(1930s) I Married An Angel
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1930s Highlights
Theater
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
I Married An Angel
</hdr>
<body>
<p>(May 23, 1938)
</p>
<p> The plot of I Married An Angel has to do with Count Willy
Palaffi (Dennis King), a Budapest banker who, swearing he will
marry nothing less than an angel, is forthwith confronted by one
(Vera Zorina), wings and all. They wed, but the bride's
celestial habit of blurting out the truth stirs up a lot of
trouble with the groom's friends and depositors.
</p>
<p> For an act and a half, I Married An Angel pins all its hopes
on being fluffy, fleecy, feathery swansdown. And fluffy, fleecy,
feathery indeed is Actress Zorina with her pale face, charming
figure, dainty dancing and foolproof accent. In the same mood
are at least two of Composer Rodgers' best tunes; I Married An
Angel (a natural for the hurdy-gurdies) and Spring Is Here.
</p>
<p> In the middle of Act II, Producer Wilman suddenly tosses
Budapest into the Danube, lights out for Manhattan, hotchas up
Broadway and gives the signal for all kinds of people to rush
in where angels fear to tread. The slightly incongruous result
wakes up a drowsing show with the black coffee of a burlesque
on a Radio City Music Hall routine, introduced by the song At
the Roxy Music Hall:
</p>
<qt>
<l>Where they change the lights a million</l>
<l>times a minute.</l>
<l>Where the stage goes up and down when</l>
<l>they begin it,</l>
<l>It's a wonder Mrs. Roosevelt</l>
<l>isn't in it</l>
<l>At the Roxy Music Hall.</l>
</qt>
</body>
</article>
</text>