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...Bing Crosby, who financed this film version but does not appear in it, thought he was taking all necessary precautions by posting a rabbi, a priest and a Protestant minister on the set as technical advisers during production. But the story's Jewish father is still a pinchpenny, the Irish father is still a belligerent bullhead. It turns out, in 1946, that jokes about racial and religious groups are not really good, clean...
Abie's Irish Rose (Bing Crosby Producers; United Artists) is a tired old theatrical joke about a Jewish boy and an Irish-Catholic girl. It was undiluted corn a quarter of a century ago; by now, the course of recent history has covered the feeble joke with a rather repellent mold...
...radio, recordings are the staff of life. They fill 43% of all radio time and recently have even moved in on network nighttime hours (e.g., Bing Crosby's new show is transcribed-TIME, Oct. 14). In addition, most big-time programs are recorded in rehearsal, so that weak spots can be patched. Commercials are often test-recorded three or four times...
...shall go further than this. Not only is there no Santa Claus; we also believe that Christmas should be abolished. Space does not permit a fuller catalogue of our reasons; let the expense, the inevitable annual deterioration of mental stability and the endless irritation of Bing Crosby singing "White Christmas" argue for themselves...
Eddie Canton and wife Ida turned out to have overpaid their income taxes in 1945, got back the difference: some $100,000. Bing Crosby, whose golf had been suffering, got a checkup at a hospital, was treated for a stiff elbow. Actor George Sanders took fresh note of the way celebrities got mauled and announced that he would never again give his autograph in public. And PRC Pictures announced that it was bringing Rin Tin Tin back in Vita-color...