The problem faced by "The Glenn Miller Story," which will play at the Colonial Theater until Friday, is that its non-musical themes are veiled with age. All the stuff that makes any movie musical, pops up somewhere. Sid Caeser and Imogene Coca would have no difficulty measuring the script for one of their film satire routines. In the bare plot roam: a young man who pawns his trombone to pay for food, a young man searching for a band with a new "sound," a young man who proposes marriage by telephone to a young lady more than 2000 miles away whom he has not seen in two years, a mature man who gives up seeking the band with a new "sound," a mature man spurred on by his wife to hunt again for that band, an older man who finally finds the "sound" and goes off to war, and a dead man who leaves his wife in alternate tears and laughter as "The End" flashes on the screen...

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