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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>
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