"Oh Kay!" has at last come to Boston, and it has come minus Gertrude Lawrence, Victor Shaw, and other lights of lesser brilliancy. The New York chorus has been replaced by a typical Boston chorus, but the tunes and the lines remain the same, and "Oh Kay!", even with its only average production is a first class musical comedy.

It has no end of good pieces, among the best being "Maybe," "Clap Yo' Hads, "Do-Do-Do," "Fidgety Feet," and "Someone to Watch Over Me." Frank Crumit as the leading man and Julia--Sanderson, playing the corresponding part in the opposite sex, evidently chosen for their truly excellent voices in casting them for the roles of Jimmie Winters, the much-married hero, and Kay, the bootlegging sister of a bootlegging English duke.

The plot is simple and pleasant enough, dealing, as so many seem to do nowadays, with the bootlegging industry. Jimmie Winters arrives at his Long Island home with his latest bride, having taken her as his wife on the chance that a divorce had already been granted to free him from a former matrimonial bond. Needless to say, the divorce had not been granted, as he learns by telegram soon after his arrival at his summer home. His latest wife, now not a wife in the eyes of the law, tears off to get her father and the shotgun.

Meanwhile we are let into the secret that bootleggers have been using his house as a storing place for everything from champagne to bad gin. Kay, the bootlegging girl--oh, dear, what is the younger generation coming to?--appears on the scene, chased by bootleggers. It turns out that she had rescued Jimmie from--drowning one day when she happened to be speeding by in a mahogany speedboat, and it had been love at first sight all along although on account of complications, loyalties, and the rest of the usual good old hokum, everybody isn't happy until the end of the last act.

The only unexpected point of the plot has been left out of the summary above, so you will have to go see the show for yourself to find it out. And if you do go, listen rather than look, for there is far more to hear than there is to see.