Word: binges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scarcely breaking stride, Bing Crosby loped off with a blue ribbon for meeting the Treasury emergency in song. With Connie Boswell, on his Kraft Music Hall hour Thursday night (NBC Red, 9 to 10), he plugged the pleasantest of 1941's patriotic ditties, Irving Berlin's Any Bonds Today? (copyrighted by Henry Morgenthau Jr.), with a brand-new verse...
...they interspersed glimpses of the Boston telephone directory to sustain the plot interest. Every ditty that horse-and-buggy gramophones ground out is here, from "Tiger Rag" to "After the Ball" and "My Melancholy Baby." With a couple of the screen's best song-pluggers, Mary Martin and Bing Crosby, to do the honors, these old--but not outworn--Hit Paraders pack all the punch, plus a good deal more nostalgia, than they had in their prime...
...more commercial vein, there are a few items also: Woody Herman and Bing Crosby collaborate nicely, while Tommy Dorsey performs some easy-riding Sy Oliver arrangements...
...Fidler in a nightclub, claimed Mrs. Fidler wounded him in the ear with her fork. The row was over Fidler's cracks about the movie industry, it Meanwhile attorneys for Flynn and Wife Lili Damita are arranging a property settlement, with a separation in the offing. ∙ ∙Bing Crosby practiced a week for a try at Rigoletto with the San Francisco Opera, decided it wasn't his field. ∙ ∙ Sonja Henie was finally sworn in as a U.S. citizen. ∙ ∙ Reporting that she had been booed in Rio, on the street, at the opera door...
First conversation, an obbligato to a program of Bing Crosby records, was between two Jersey City men-about-town, who dwelt on the previous night's amours. Said one: "So everything was all right, eh?" Said the other...