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...Bless the Child (Bea Wain; Victor). Billie Holiday's new hard-times song, sung with the appropriate lump in the throat...
...about the world." ≤≤ For $1 a year Vincent Astor turned over to the Coast Guard his $2,500,000 yacht Nourmahal, made famous by many a Roosevelt fishing cruise. An earlier Nourmahal, sold by Astor in the mid-'20s, burned last March off Halifax, ≤≤ Bea Lillie gave a benefit performance in food-rationed England, was awarded 24 tomatoes, 14 eggs and six heads of lettuce-not thrown, but delivered, ≤≤ Private "Bummy" Davis, beaten to a pudding by Welterweight Champ Fritzie Zivic, went A.W.O.L. when he got out of Army hospital on Governors Island...
...Sister and I (Benny Goodman; Columbia; Bea Wain, Victor). They remember the tulip gardens and windmills, "but we don't talk about that." An icky little something, but it sounds like a hit. Singer Wain's is the best vocal...
...Bea." For some time Charlot's Revue was mostly hard chorus work for Gertie. But twice when Beatrice Lillie left the show (once on falling from a horse, again on getting married) her understudy Gertie had her chance to shine. In 1924 Chariot's Revue came to the U. S. featuring the ludicrous Lillie, the elegant Jack Buchanan, and Gertie. They arrived on Christmas Eve and while waiting for the customs Bea and Gertie sat on their trunks, cried, and sang carols. The revue flopped in an Atlantic City tryout, but a few weeks later it wowed Broadway. Twenty-five...
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...