Word: bea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from being too long and too silly, Yokel Boy is very fair entertainment. Comes Love should join the season's song hits. The chorus looks good and dances better. Judy Canova is an admirably droll musicomedy Sis Hopkins who flops only when she confuses herself with Bea Lillie. Yokel Boy Buddy Ebsen can use his feet. Tiny, titillating Dixie Dunbar can use her body. And Phil Silvers clowns convincingly as a loud, long-fingered Hollywood agent...
...thing, the show has a lot of dependable talent: the amusing, if less than Bea-Lillie, drollness of Luella Gear; the Gallic, if less than Maurice-Chevalier, charm of Jean Sablon; the dazed, middle-aged prankishness of Bobby Clark ("I'm Robert the Roue of Reading, Pa."); the borderline sanity of Abbott & Costello; the magic bartending of "Think a Drink" Hoffman, who turns water into not only wine, but dry Martinis, Pink Ladys and piping hot coffee...
...pretty wife, who sang extremely well with Bobby Hackett, is going to handle vocals from now on . . . Artie Shaw, who has been suffering from a very rare and usually fatal blood disease, is now definitely out of danger and is recuperating on the Coast . . . Strong rumor has it that Bea Wain, Larry Clinton's song stress, is going to leave at the end of her contract to do solos. This is supported by the fact that Larry has signed Marion Douglas of New Jersey...
...suppressors on all razors, for such regimentation is obviously impossible. Better to suppress the shavers themselves. Careful consideration, however, leads but to one conclusion; owners of electric razors must to all costs read their daily radio programs with great care. Let them learn when Paderewski, Artie Shaw, Bob Benchley, Bea Wain, Information Please, and other necessities of life are due; ten let them rap the daily harvest accordingly...
...Venuta intoning Cole Porter's lyrical efforts is in its fifty-first week and a fine thing it is. "At Home Abroad" which opened in Boston a bit too early for the college boys is a magnificently staged revue with a glittering cast ranging all the way from Auntie Bea Lillie's mad antics to Paul Haakon's very impressive modern terpsichore, and including the talented toes of Eleanor Powell and the powerful dusky notes of Ethel Waters. "Jubilee," another Boston opener, is on the grand scale with a nicely turned bit of satire and Mary Boland leading a well...