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...Road to Bali (Paramount) is the sixth in the highly successful Bing Crosby Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Road series* and the first in Technicolor. Like its predecessors, this entry hews to the established Road musicomedy formula: plenty of gags & girls strung on a practically non-existent plot line. This time, Bing and Bob are a couple of broken down vaudevillians who hire themselves out as deep sea divers in a quest for sunken treasure off the island of Vatu. Along the way, they encounter a dastardly South Sea prince (Murvyn Vye), a Balinese princess of Scottish ancestry (Dorothy Lamour...
Bing and Bob, dressed in kilts, sing one number called Hoot Mon. Dorothy Lamour models a succession of silk and cloth-of-gold sarongs designed by Hollywood's Edith Head. There is also a shipwreck, a headhunters' ceremonial, and an erupting volcano. Road to Bali does not always run a smooth comedy course, but it has some diverting detours...
Dancers of Bali Gamelan Orchestra (Columbia). Deep gongs, cymbals, gangsas (marimbas), reyongs (small tuned gongs), angklungs (rattles) and finger-drums, played with astonishing variety of tone and precisely stumbling rhythms by the Indonesian musicians now touring the U.S. (TiME, Oct. 6). Good fun, and a rattling good test for "hifi" phonographs...
Curtain Calls & Candy Bars. At first the dancers were confused by the applause (in Bali, there is no clapping...
...tour was the idea of Britain's John Coast. He was a P.W. in southeast Asia during the war, later married a Javanese girl and settled in Bali to write (Recruit to Revolution) and to organize a troupe of dancers. His wife Supianti is assistant producer, costume designer and "mother" to the cast's nine girls. They will take the troupe from Boston to Washington late this month and from Cleveland to Los Angeles later this year. As for Manhattan, it has bought up tickets so fast that the Balinese have agreed to come back for two additional...