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Still, there are some good things about the show. Sammy Davis Jr., looking like an absurd Harlemization of Chico Marx, makes a wonderfully silly stinker out of Sportin' Life. The singing is generally good-particularly the comic bits by Pearl Bailey and the ballads by Adele Addison, who sings the role of Bess while Dorothy Dandridge acts it. And the color photography gains a remarkable lushness through the use of filters, though in time -2 hr. 36 min., including an intermission -the spectator may get tired of the sensation that he is watching the picture through amber-colored sunglasses...
Some of the members of the faculty, which includes outstanding members of the Harvard faculty and visitors from universities throughout the world, are: Prof. Stephen K. Bailey of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; Prof. Otto J. Brendel of Columbia University; Prof. Henry C. Darby of the University of London; Dr. Edmund J. King of the University of London; Prof. Allen Tate of the University of Minnesota; Prof. Hans J. Morgenthau of the University of Chicago; and Prof. C. Crane Brinton of Harvard University...
From the circuits and the speakeasies, Bailey & Barnum began picking up about $900 a week. But as Bill tells it now, in 1929 he saw the stock-market crash coming at him one way and talkies the other, so he broke up the old act and left the country. With his wife, he drifted east via South Africa and Australia, did routines in Peking, Tsingtao, Manila, Java and Shanghai. Then he put in two weeks at Singapore's famed Raffles Hotel, looked over the city and decided: "This is the place...
Like Old Black Joe. When the British liberated Singapore in 1945, the Baileys wandered out of prison and into town, found a house marked ENEMY PROPERTY. Bill added a note of his own-"Occupied by Bill Bailey"-and moved in. The couple liked the place, settled down, soon turned it into the Coconut Grove. Old Trouper Bailey had come home at last...
...Manchester. Then he looks in at the scene of a payroll robbery, gets word that the inspector he sacked has been killed by a passing car, discovers that the same car was used in the payroll job. Puzzled, he rushes off to testify about something or other at Old Bailey, but the case gets clearer when he checks out a lead on the late inspector's lady friend. On her premises he gets a fluke chance to catch the main man with cash in hand. And so on until well after midnight, when the chief inspector arrives home...