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...Fridolin's appeal-the wistful urchin, the Chaplinesque underdog who fights for causes that can never succeed, and makes love to girls he can never win. The slingshot expresses the other half of his appeal - the impudent nose-thumber who (at Bob Hope speed) lets fly at bingo, dance bands, radio advertising, women in war plants - and the Mackenzie King Government...
...Marysville, Calif. Bingo Playhouse, a G.I. won a free five-minute telephone call to any place in the U.S., rang up his mother-in-law in Gridley, Calif., 15? away...
...Bingo" Riggs and "Handsome" Kusak, peripatetic photographers, stop in an Iowa village on their way to Hollywood, are properly hornswoggled over a flock of turkeys, get dangerously involved in several murders and a hidden hoard of stolen gold pieces. A local sheriff does the major sleuthing. No deductive masterpiece but well stocked with action, odd characters and merriment...
Hope carves up his movie scripts too-and if Bing Crosby is also in the picture, they go in for downright slaughter. To one scripter who turned up on the set of Road to Singapore, Hope hollered: "If you hear any of your dialogue, yell Bingo...
After the Bingo. But marriage introduced Gardner to the inside of show business. Gradually he worked into producing, directing and writing radio shows. Now the sole owner of Duffy's (where they catch the "after-Bingo crowd"), he nets about $2,000 a week. Gardner admits that he himself is indistinguishable from his character Archie. After a recent broadcast a woman towed her young son up to Gardner and pleaded : "Talk to him like Archie." Said the astonished Gardner: "How else...