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TEA FDR TWO
Song, (lance and fun were the principal ingredients of a Broadway hit musical (ailed "No, No, Nanette" hack in the early Thirties. Warners anil director David Butler have con' verted the stage smash into a titillating screen entertainment with some of the most personahle people on their roster.
Doris Day, the canary who used to be a hoofer, gets plenty of opportunity to work in both categories as the young heiress with song-and-dance aspirations. Gordon MacRae also gets plenty of opportunities to indulge in the talent which first brought him fame and the idolatry of bobby-soxers crooning. Gene Nelson, Broadwav dancer who is rapidly reaching the heights on the screen as an up-and-coming hoofer, has a field day as the dancing star of the show within a show. Another Broadway recruit, Patrice Wymore, sing*, dances and undulates in a sull try African dance number.
For the comic angles, there is Eve Arden tossing off quips
, in her inimitable manner; S. Z. -Cuddies" Sakall Dutch
i uncling Miss Day to the delight of the onlooker, and Billy De Wolfe indulging in several portions of his rib-tickling night club routines, as well as cavorting in a principal role as producer of the show and Wolf •
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J "Tea for Two" is set in the , period of the Wall Street de, bade of '29, treating of a band of show people endeavoring to produce a musical with reluctant backers. The musical niini] bers were staged and directed I by LeRoy Prinz.
At right, Gene Nelson performs a spectacular staircase dance; below, Doris Day and Gordon MacRae in one of the production numbers from 'No, No, Nanette".