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| | Variety.com - Reviews - Dodsworth |
 | | Hal Linden's performance in "Dodsworth," a new musical premiering at Casa Manana, is one of the show's chief charms, but his likable presence also spotlights the show's problems with style and content. |
 | | Sam Dodsworth has "thick hands" and his wife, Fran, can make him feel "as clumsy as a St. Bernard." As portrayed Walter Huston in the 1939 film version -- based on Sidney Howard's Broadway hit -- even at 60, Dodsworth is a rawboned, hickish eager-beaver. |
 | | Basically, "Dodsworth" is a consoling, middle-brow social satire, and as such, it has the soul of a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. |
| www.variety.com /review/VE1117910355?categoryid=31&cs=1 (634 words) |
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