Word: creams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flexner, his favorite. For years no one dared call him Popsy to his face. Yet he did not act like a lonely, reserved bachelor -he was always dapper, always nimble on his little feet, always ready for fun. He loved carnival life: Coney Island, Hollywood, roller coasters, ice cream. He gorged himself on everything from terrapin to ham & eggs, ate from three to six desserts, became "irritated" if his friends stopped at one. An opera, painting, baseball fan, he astonished musicians and sports experts with his lore...
Though Miss Turner's peaches-&-cream face is void of any marks of endeavor, she is discovered in a Western boom town. So is "Candy" Johnson (Mr. Gable), a gay con man who talks himself into and out of control of the frontier town. Although Lana is obviously overyoung to handle anyone of Actor Gable's ilk, she marries him (with reform in her eye) for better or worse. She gets worse and likes...
Medbury's Quirt & Flagg script is not so yeasty as the famed Anderson-Stallings' play, although plenty tough for radio. But the show is designed to sell Mennen's shaving cream, and Author Medbury doesn't have to worry about feminine outcries, except from bearded ladies...
Being a native of Minnesota myself, it is gratifying to read the success stories of neighboring contemporaries, but I do feel that the detailed "cream cheese and veal sandwiches account of their Washington lunch hour is irrelevant and weak preface material for your article on SPAB...
Mustard and ice cream are, in their proper settings, palatable items. Served together as a sundae, without the loss of individual flavor, they would soon convince the eater that each was better off without the other. The same is true of Jack Benny as "Charley's Aunt." Not that both the picture and Benny aren't screamingly funny--just that the picture would have been funnier with Jack Benny in something else and the same might be said of the Waukegan romeo...