Three To Make Ready is really more Ray Bolger's show than anyone else's, although Brenda Forbes is just as hilarious in her “Walküre” scene of grand opera as she was the last time this identical sketch was produced in the identical manner in Two For the Show, and there will be rude folk who will suggest that, if Stanley Gilkey and Barbara Payne, its producers, are going to loot the antecedent productions of Three To Make Ready, they might well include “Teeter-Totter Tessie” and “I Only Know That I Must Find Him.”
The intimate revue as old codgers and chronic curmudgeons will recall it in The First Little Show isn't recreated in Three To Make Ready, not by a darn sight, but it is the sort of show in which audiences forgive minor defect in the pleasure of seeing something frivolous, unpretentious, and peopled with young, attractive persons of pleasant character and intention. Not a class angle or a significant implication in the evening, and that, on the Broadway of the moment, is practically perfect.
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