Listening to this I kept thinking, "this would probably be good to watch on stage, with all these burlesque routines, gags and songs, etc around a standard plot" – but this radio adaptation just has the plot, which isn’t that interesting. Bert Lahr and June Havoc (Gypsy Rose Lee’s sister) play a husband and wife who play the burlesque circuit – he’s very talented but a boozer, skirt-chaser with no ambition, but she still loves him. I guess it’s okay, the performers can’t be faulted, but for me it lacked much depth and atmosphere – but like I say, it must have been fun to watch: Lahr appeared on this show to promote his appearance in a revival on Broadway which went for two years (it was originally produced in the late 1920s).
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