Word: allen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sally, Irene and Mary (Twentieth Century-Fox) lacks the timely zing that makes most Darryl Zanuck cinemusicals seem a little better than they are. Comic interludes are contributed by horn-beaked Jimmy Durante, startled-looking Fred Allen. Of a half-dozen tunes shared by Songstress Alice Faye and Crooner Husband Tony Martin, the Gordon-Revel Sweet As a Song is best...
...cinema's No. 1 Hoodlum Edward G. Robinson as the beer baron. Warners people the play with a cast of stylized plug-uglies who are authentic Runyon to the very toothpick. Best scene: Baron Robinson and associates deciding whose lawns to decorate with the corpses, making crestfallen Henchman Allen Jenkins stay home and miss...
...Sally, Irene, and Mary," now at the Metropolitan, Alice Faye and Tony Martin rub noses, Fred Allen climbs a lamp post, Joan Davis goes into unbelievable contortions while tap dancing, and Jimmy Durante, back in films with his cigar and his proboscis, does his traditional "Again-You Turn-a" dance. A hodge-podge of the craziest situations Director William Seiter could throw together, the film makes no sense whatever; but it does succeed in being mildly amusing and sometimes very funny, which is all that was ever intended...
...Fred Allen is a real disappointment, mainly because he is given few of the witty remarks which make him a success on the radio. Alice Faye is charming, however, and sings pleasantly; and Tony Martin is an adequate leading...
...Inter-House Athletic Council, Robert W. Snyder, President of the Pierian Sodality and Conductor of the Band, John S. Bainbridge, a member of the Lampoon, and Morris Earle, former President of the CRIMSON, Manager of soccer, and a member of the Student Council. How They Voted MARSHAL *C Russell Allen 224 *Vernon H. Struck 216 *John L. Dampeer 210 Joseph P. Kennedy 190 Francis Keppel 187 Harold van B. Cleveland 161 George F. Lowman 139 Edward L. Barnes 133 Caspar W. Weinberger 122 George F. Roberts 73 TREASURER *George von L. Meyer, 3d 105 Richard T. Davis 103 Peter...