Walter Kerr wasn’t just a critic he also wrote for the theatre – not very well, if this is to be a guide. It’s a folk musical, an excuse to parade some old American folk songs, including “On Top of Old Smokey” and “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” and a bunch of other tunes, most of which I‘d heard before. The story isn’t much: Burl Ives plays a happy go lucky person who walks around America through the ages – Revolutionary times, Civil War, the present day. I know it was an excuse to go from song to song but couldn’t they have come up with a better excuse? If you really like Burl Ives and old American folk songs though, this could be the thing for you. Arthur Godfrey, another big radio name at the time, co-stars.
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