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...Since he is smarmy, rubber-legged, and given to fixed, fatuous grins, Lou Antonio is a more difficult taste to acquire. With comedies like Barefoot in the Park, Any Wednesday, The Knack, Luv and The Owl and the Pussycat in competition, a play like C. B. is not an also-ran but a never-walked...
...UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN. This massive song-and-dancer based on Meredith Willson's also-ran Broadway musical owes nearly all its buoyancy to a raucous, winning, free-style performance by Debbie Reynolds as the rich mountain gal who yearns to make a splash in Denver society...
That made it an All-Aussie final, the sixth in nine years. Stolle's opponent: Roy Emerson, 28, the world's No. 1-ranked amateur, but always before an also-ran at Wimbledon-in eight tries, he had never reached the finals. This time, Emerson went all the way. Despite intermittent showers that forced officials to stop the match three times, he polished off Stolle in four straightforward, serve-volley sets...
...Unsaleable Molly Brown is a massive song-and-dancer derived from Meredith Willson's also-ran Broadway musical of 1-960. Defying the laws of levity, it follows an ebullient, money-grubbing Irish lass who marries a miner and gets rich so she can sashay in Denver's high society. When the bluebloods snub her, she flounces off to Yurrup to bring home some dukes and duchesses, finally earns her place among the snobs and saves her marriage-for reasons clear only to musical comedy authors-by surviving the Titanic disaster...
...Ekins' victory could not tarnish the luster of the also-ran. The Hearst papers sent a covey of reporters west to greet Dorothy, among them her father, James Kilgallen. Everybody wept. "Waiting, waiting," sobbed Hearst Sob Sister Elsie Robinson in print: "What's the big idea-I'm not supposed to cry, just because I'm a newspaper woman . . . So, as I was saying-there came the Clipper and there came Dorothy-who looks, as I've said plenty of times before, exactly like Minnie Mouse...