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Second feature, "One Night in the Tropics," has only two excuses for being produced. One of these, Jerome Kern's new numbers, is a pretty poor excuse. Comedy team Abbot and Costello, however, offer a few bright spots in an otherwise dull picture. Just as clever but not nearly so frank as in Gypsy Rose Lee's World Fair show, the two funsters show good Hollywood possibilities. The program as a whole, though, is a fair side order and a poor main dish...
...story by the late Earl Derr Biggers. Top-flight Cinematographer Joseph Valentine ran the camera. Yet together, this combination of Hollywood's ablest backstage talent accomplished no more than a jumbled exaggeration of the Boy Meets Girl motif with scattered comic turns by Radio Zanies Abbott and Costello...
...Stone, The Aldrich Family will continue to relate the trials & tribulations of adolescent Henry Aldrich, who first turned up in Manhattan in 1937 in the George Abbott comedy What a Life. Besides The Aldrich Family, radio's summer substitute fare (on Eastern Daylight Saving Time) will include: >Abbott & Costello, oldtime vaudevillians, who will split with Mr. District Attorney the 9-10 Wednesday night period on NBC's red network left vacant by Fred Allen, who goes to CBS in the fall...
...Broadway, and on the whole a livelier show. Unhappily missing are Dazed Comedian Bobby Clark, "Think a Drink" Hoffman with his magic bar tending, and Carmen Miranda with her tropical lure. But missing also are half a dozen numbers that slowed up the show, while Abbott & Costello are crazier and better than ever. New to the show is Gypsy Rose Lee, with her famous absent-minded striptease. If it doesn't make up for Miranda, it keeps anyone in the audience-temporarily at least-from thinking about...
Half the time kidding rah rah stuff, during the other half Rodgers & Hart rove as far from the campus as they please. In Spic & Spanish, dark, Puerto Rican St. Vitus Dancer Diosa Costello does everything but break a leg. In I Didn't Know What Time It Was, charming Marcy Wescott tremulously chalks one up for love. In Give It Back to the Indians, Rodgers & Hart sell short the Manhattan they raised a glass to in the Garrick Gaieties. In I Like to Recognize the Tune* Rodgers & Hart-who hate swing-give "hot" bands an earful...