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- <text>
- <title>
- (1930s) Babes In Arms
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1930s Highlights
- Theater
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- Babes In Arms
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>(April 26, 1937)
- </p>
- <p> Having participated in the most refreshing musical show of
- the previous season, On Your Toes, Messrs. Rodgers & Hart were
- felicitated for having picked a novel notion this season for the
- first show they ever provided with a book as well as songs and
- lyrics, Babes in Arms. Lyricist Hart--never topped since he
- observed in 1925 that "beans cold get no keener reception in a
- beanery: bless our mountain greenery home!"--still maintains
- the lightest touch in the business. As usual, the Rodgers
- melodies are fresh as a May wind, artful and surprising as the
- flight of a barn swallow. George Balanchine's ballets,
- particularly a long dream dance, continue to set marks for more
- serious masters to shoot for.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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