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...Communist-led banana-worker unions demanded that United Fruit, already paying minimum wages three times greater than top wages on Guatemalan-owned farms, jack up wage floors from $1.36 daily...
...King" Cole; Capitol). A new tune by Johnny Mercer from the forthcoming Broadway show, Top Banana. Both Mercer and Cole slipped on the skin...
...gung-gung-gung-gung." And though he remained a loud, low comedian, he labored for the sympathy of the audience and concentrated more & more on perfecting an air of bewilderment and insane incompetence, the eternal fall guy with one foot in his mouth and the other poised over a banana peel...
...number called the "Top Banana Ballet" in the second act is alone worth the price of admission. Silvers stands on a darkened stage, and as he thinks of his old days in vaudeville, the burlesque stage comes alive. Six baggy-pants comedians put on a display of double takes, dance steps and routines, a chorus line reminiscent of the Old Howard girls parades across the stage, and a strip tease dancer bumps and grinds. Silvers relives his former role, complete with cane and straw hat, singing, mugging and thoroughly enjoying himself. And the audience enjoys itself...
Although Top Banana will no doubt be a commercial success, it is not a smooth, finished musical production. There are many slow spots, and many, many bad gags. But the things that are good are very good. A girl named Rose Marie sings a couple of songs in the grand musical comedy tradition, Silvers' sidekick, Jack Albertson, is a very funny man, and Mielziner's sets are tops...