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...first thought up the film, S. P. Eagle had no business. He had nothing more than the bare idea for the picture. And he was close to starving. The apocryphal story has it that Mr. Eagle thereupon invited Hollywood's most expensive authors to dinner at Dave Chasen's swank restaurant, ordered the best that Mr. Chasen had, disclosed his idea, picked the writers clean of theirs, and then walked out, leaving the check...
...great moment for Woody Van Dyke, who loves pomp and patriotism even more than pictures. Last fall he hung the stars and stripes outside his studio office, tacked up a sign proclaiming it a Marine recruiting station. After Thursday-night drills with his outfit, Woody would stride into Chasen's restaurant and climb aboard a stool in full regimental regalia. Hollywood said good-by to Woody at a formal dinner for 500 on an M. G. M. sound stage climaxed by a hectic scuffle for the check by the studio, the Screen Directors Guild, Producer Edward Mannix...
Catered by Dave Chasen, the dinner was served with pomp in the 60-foot Rathbone dining hall. Lebensraum was conquered by extending the dining-room floor out into the garden, covering and siding the extension with canvas to keep out the rain...
...convince people she has talent as a singer. The boy (John Howard) is an ice cream vendor who successfully sings a duet with her but bridles when he learns her identity. The tedium of this is relieved by a small, able, comely tap dancer named Eleanore Whitney, Dave Chasen as a one-man band, and Willie Howard, whose great ambition is to sing "La Donna è mobile'' from Rigoletto without being forcibly stopped...
...attendant turns a crank and a small carousel begins to revolve. One of the riders seizes a cardboard milk bottle, breaks it over the ticket-taker's head. In surprise, the ticket-taker heaves a handful of coins on the stage. Some roustabouts who have been holding Dave Chasen above a glass tank of water, dive for the coins. Chasen falls into the tank and sounds the last note of the tune with an automobile horn...