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...others. The hero's though-stream is tainted with literature, and his phrases sometimes suggest the love-pulps. "You could neck her and yammer love between her teeth and all the time her mind would be skating on that little pool." The heroine talks in the early Noel Coward-Philip Barry manner that used to be known as brittle. The fourth in this group, "Hike in the Spring," by Mr. Clurman, winner last year of the national contest, is well conceived, but not quite successful in making the references to the step-mother give intensity to the accident that befalls...
...Lunceford, but shows possibilities of becoming much better . . . For drumming with all of Krupa's speed and flash but with taste and drive, listen to Cozy Cole on Callaway's "Ratamacue" (Vocalion) . . . Not swing, but still very funny is the Commodore release of "Private Jives," a parody on Noel Coward's "Private Lives" . . . Word also slips 'round that Vocalion has succumbed to the album craze, turning out a collection of old Fletcher Henderson platters...
...song hit of Leave It to Me! is My Heart Belongs to Daddy. In a new Persian skit added to Noel Coward's Set to Music, Beatrice Lillie blacks out with: "My heart belongs to Bagdaddy...
...Colman, a ten-year holdout against radio work; Cinemactress Carole Lombard; Leading Man Gary Grant; Baritone Lawrence Tib-bett; Groucho and Chico Marx; Robert Emmett Dolan and his orchestra. Early guests were Pianist Jose Iturbi, with a swing item in his repertory and "okeydokey" in his vocabulary, and Noel Coward, who upstaged everybody, gave Carole stagefright...
...Falstaff o'erstrides the play. Unknightliest of knights, a "tun of a man," a "huge bombard of sack"-guzzler, lecher, liar, braggart, coward, thief-he is like some centrifugal force overcoming gravitation. Far from being a villain, he is the most entertaining and lovable of knaves. Caught out in his outrageous boasts, his fantastic lies, shamming dead (to avoid being killed) on the battlefield, he never loses his unshatterable aplomb, never lags in invention or languishes in wit. At bottom Falstaff may well be a superb showman, not expecting to be believed, only counting on being relished; not expecting...