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...Waikiki Wedding" has a beginning and an ending and a middle. The middle takes up an hour and 15 minutes; it might have taken considerably less. "Waikiki Wedding" is a string of pearls, imitation. They consist of Bob Burns and Martha Raye and numerous semi-humorous incidents; Bing Crosby and Shirley Ross and numerous semi-romantic incidents; and numerous biological implications. The latter are of course the concomitant of anything and everything Hawalian in the layman's eye. "Waikiki Wedding" consists of practically anything and everything Hawalian in the layman's eye, from hula to volcano, from pineapples...
...near Western became a factory for mass production of 15-minute shows. They needed bright youngsters who would work cheap. Janet Gaynor swung on a chandelier from the stage of Loew's State in Los Angeles; Myrna Loy's rice-powdered legs pranced in many a chorus; Bing Crosby, shaking with stage fright, croaked Mississippi Mud. A buxom girl soprano who had worked with them in Tait's signed a Metropolitan opera contract in a round, florid hand: Mary Lewis. Others who drew Fanchon & Marco checks were Martha Raye, June Knight, Mitchell & Durant, Eleanore Whitney, Johnny Downs...
...annoying artificiality. In A Star Is Born this false note becomes precisely the true one required to make his performance in the role of actor the best since his similar job in The Royal Family. Good sequence: Maine delivering amiable insults to his sanatorium attendant-christened "Cuddles" after Bing Crosby's bull in Rhythm on the Range...
Father Divine disappeared before police could lay hands upon him. An alarm went out for his arrest, for felonious assault and "acting in concert" with three other Negroes whom police charged with stab bing Greene. For the podgy little Messiah who claims 30,000,000 followers (and has about 50,000), there then followed other misfortunes. First of these was the apostasy of his fat, capable right hand, "Faithful Mary" (Viola Wilson...
This mild pleasantry is as excellently suited to Bing Crosby's mild acting talents as its soft Hawaiian tunes (Momi Pele, Okolehau, Nani Ona Pua) are suited to his deep warbling. Comedy is ladled out by Martha Raye, who distorts her vast mouth and yowls, and by Bob Burns, who to get laughs uses a pig named Wafford instead of his former "Bazooka." This amiable razorback is by far the funniest member of the trio, steals the show by oinking at suitable moments, winning a blue ribbon at a dog-show, then exhibiting a most distinctive canine trait when...