Word: binges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sing You Sinners (Paramount) combines the Sentimental Family plot (see col. 2) with the Crooked Horse Race plot -perhaps an influence of the double feature. The Beebe family is distinguished from most cinema families by the fact that one member of it (Fred MacMurray) works. Joe Beebe (Bing Crosby) does not work, not having the knack. He is idle and lazy, with no thrift, energy or regard for the value of money; he drinks, philanders, plays the horses, comes to an only temporary good end. When Mrs. Beebe (Elizabeth Patterson) persuades him to give up the trade of horse racing...
...ring at Utica, Mich. last week, Joe Louis put Bing Crosby through a few paces. Bing Crosby is a five-gaited saddle horse and Joe Louis was riding him in the highest-toned Negro horse show ever held...
...park as a pastime, the colored upper crust of Detroit. Chicago and Cleveland followed suit, bought expensive saddle horses. Last week Joe Louis persuaded his wealthy friends to ship their horses to Detroit. Except for the fact that there were only six events and 16 horses (two of them Bing Crosby and McDonald's Choice, belonging to Sponsor Louis), the Utica Riding Club Horse Show was not far different from the flashy horse shows it tried to ape. No. 1 judge of the show, W. C. Overton, whose regular job is supervising the paddock at the Detroit racetrack, thought...
SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT (Bing Crosby; Decca). With the Paul Taylor Choristers, Mr. Crosby looks over "Jerdon." Heady vocalizing, unequaled since his Swanee River...
...Kraft Music Hall program has the reputation of going to considerable lengths for a gag. Not long ago its headliner Baritone Harry Lillis ("Bing") Crosby, observed, after a bazooka solo by Bob Burns, that the rendition had been "as dirty as the inside of a Russian horse doctor's valise." In somewhat the same free-style spirit, last week Kraft Announcer Ken Carpenter ad libbed at the end of the program during which Mr. Crosby had played Beautiful Ohio on a saw, that "Cuddle Up a Little Closer is from The Three Twins and Beautiful Ohio from hunger...