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...Work, work, work--the boys are marching" is the new slogan for the healthy-looking ladies of Smith these days, with the announcement from Northampton that every girl will "work or train" this summer. "This summer must be constructive," they chant in unison...
...unsubtle comparisons of the Hitler and Roosevelt governments are mere hollow re-cchoings of the reactionary chant of the politically blind and deaf: the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Legion, the Tydings-Cox-Dics entente in Congress. His branding of Administration officials as "Nazi New Dealers" carries the systematic trend towards national distrust and confusion one step further. It borders on sedition...
Later on, in a benefit show for the Navy, Zorina dances in the snow to one of the best songs of the season. "That Old Black Magic." Hope gets caught in a shower with jealous husband William Bendix. Alan Ladd commits a ten-second murder, Lamour, Goddard, and Lake chant the woes of "A Sweater, A Sarong. And A Peckaboo Rang," MacMurray, Milland, Tone, and Overman revive George Kaufman's classic "If Men Played Cards As Women Do." and Rochester's zoot suit number is stolen by un-billed dancer Katharine Dunham. Bing Crosby is really wasted, however...
...Then the chant changed to: "We want Stokowski!" The dapper conductor tripped across the stage. Shouted the tank corps: "He needs a haircut...
Later Johnny wrote I'm an Old Cowhand, On Behalf of the Visiting Firemen, Jeepers Creepers, Lazy Bones and Skylark. With half the U.S. mumbling his 42nd-Street plain chant in its sleep, Mercer moved on to Hollywood. Blues in the Night, written for a Warner Brothers musical, sold over a million copies. By last week another Mercer opus. Strip Polka (for which the versatile Johnny had written the tune as well as the words), was No. 2 on Variety's list of bestsellers. Its homely refrain...