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...that of an eight year-old child, but they keep putting out pictures that a four-year-old would have a hard time digesting. The double bill at Keith Memorial is a perfect case in point. It consists of "Son of Monte Cristo" and "Play Girl," two of the corniest pictures that have graced the screen since Victor Mature went native in "1,000,000 B.C." "Son of Monte Cristo" is an attempted imitation of the grand old Douglas Fairbanks self-admitted horse opera and right now Douglas is probably doing a couple of agile back flips in his grave...
...vote-getter, the professionals grumbled as they went to Chicago's Stadium on the first night, to sit on the red-painted chairs in the vast arena, hear the old Hamlet of the House, Speaker William B. Bankhead, elocute his meandering way through half an hour of the corniest Southern oratory most of them had ever heard...
...your husband had a long grey beard, would you want him to sleep with it under or over the cover?" Posing questions like this to Chicago housewives, redhaired, babyfaced, 26-year-old Tommie Bartlett has become the guiding star of two of the cutest, corniest radio programs in the U. S. Known as Meet the Missus and The Missus Goes to Market, the Bartlett shows are broadcast from recordings each morning except Sunday over station WBBM, potently plug the virtues of Kitchen Klenzer, Big Jack Soap, Automatic Soap Flakes. Last week, in a lather of success, Tommie Bartlett was airing...
...Most pretentious and certainly the corniest air newcomer last week was Celebrity Minstrels, off to a four-week try-out on NBC-Blue (Tuesdays 9:30 to 10 E.S.T.) as a possible summer substitute for one of the big shows. To prove his point that there is a bit of minstrelsy in every man, Producer Mort Lewis (If I Had The Chance) got Cartoonist Ham Fisher (Joe Palooka} and Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg as regular endmen, Actor Ezra Stone and Announcer Harry von Zell as extras, Jay C. Flippen as interlocutor. Celebrity Minstrels opened with Oh, Dem Golden Slippers...