Word: binges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although they have caught on fast, the converted horse players are not without their complaints. Croaked one of Sammy Wolf's converts last week: "This basketball, it gives them all heart trouble. Ya see, a horse race, it starts, then bing, it's over in a few seconds. But the basketball starts, and boom, one team makes a basket. Boom, the second team makes a basket. Boom, the first team makes a basket. And this goes on for an hour. I tell ya, they're all getting heart trouble...
Murray's biggest card is his ability to get headliners in the audience to participate. Some of them, such as Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, chime in from down front. Others, such as W. C. Fields, Mickey Rooney, Victor Moore, Edgar Bergen, Dick Powell, Rudy Vallee, take over the stage. Murray exploits his guest stars brilliantly-by not exploiting them at all. They are never given billing, are often not even introduced. As a result, the audience feels it is really getting something extra for its money...
...plot is complex at first glance; but it really doesn't amount to much. Betty Hutton starts out as twin sisters; one who is an ardent Bing Crosby fan, and the other who thinks him an annoying crooner. Bing, as a sobbing singer--genus Sinatraensis--falls for the twin who will have none of him. In the course of action the Waves get both Betty Huttons, Bing gets the sensible sister, and the bobby-sock twin gets left with Sonny Tufts, who doesn't seem to care...
...Bing suffers in this film Bob Hope did in "The princess and The Pirate." Together, the two are comedians separately, Bob is a comic without a foil and Bing a straight man struggling to be funny. Except for his painful parody of Frank Sinatra, Bing's singing is regular Crosby stuff and good if you like...
...France have had a lot of entertainment from home since the first five U.S.O. units waded ashore in Normandy last July and promptly merged into one mammoth revue, practically on the beach. Dozens of other units have jested and jeeped their way around the fronts; such headliners as Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Edward G. Robinson, Morton Downey, Fred Astaire have come & gone...