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- Room Service
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- (May 31, 1937)
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- Room Service does for shoestring theatrical producing what
- Producer George Abbott's Boy Meets Girl did for Hollywood and
- his Three Men On A Horse did for horse racing. It pumps its
- subject full of fun in veterinary doses. Than this pinchback
- legend of Longacre Square, there is no funnier show in town.
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- Veteran theatre people and veteran theatre-goers will
- particularly relish the venality, innocence, hope and cynicism
- of such a character as Gordon Miller (Sam Levene), who once
- produced a great a show on a sidewalk between two No Parking
- signs and is now trying like a man possessed to produce another
- from a double room in the White Way Hotel. His initial handicap
- lies in the fact that he has already run up a bill for $1,200
- and is about to be evicted. Lacking costumes and scenery, his
- cast starving, his author (Eddie Albert) about to be lured by
- another producer, his backer a jittery character from Wall
- Street who has just stopped payment on a $15,000 check, Gordon
- Miller falters but never quite loses his how or his senses of
- duplicity and humor. As interpreted by Actor Levine, the leading
- role of Room Service is a brutal assault on most spectator's
- funny bones.
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