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Calling All Cars. In Chicago, Captain Wilbur Kennedy of the state police heard so many complaints from harassed and embarrassed couples that he issued an order: when approaching parked cars on dark and lonely roads, troopers are to cough, whistle or croon a lovesong...
...Crosby, on the lookout for some choice Crosby records ever since he lost his collection in the fire that destroyed his home last year, was reported by Columnist Harrison Carroll to have tracked down an out-of-the-way Ohio collector with 22 of them. Purchase price (to the croon tycoon): $3 apiece...
...Palm Beach Story (Paramount), a wacky, sexy comedy written and directed by imaginative Preston Sturges, gives Rudy Vallee his first chance to do something besides croon, and he does it in a surprisingly winning way. As a pince-nezed, third-generation Rockefeller (screen name: John D. Hackensacker III) who pursues slinky Claudette Colbert like an expectant collector after a particularly fine butterfly, Rudy is a sketch...
...attract gallerygoers to his Baltimore Museum of Art, was busy last week wiring his shop for sound. Director Cheek's sound equipment will emit both lectures and soft music through the museum's ventilating system. During the local artists' show this month, the microphones will croon such apt items as Maryland! My Maryland. A subsequent exhibition of Russian icons will be set to Russian Orthodox music...
...Love. To us it shows endurance,--on the audience's part. Besides, there is only one brief glimpse of Lana's limbs, and strangely enough, while all the other corny cliches are there, you won't find La Lana perching on the pianner as the boys in the background croon "Who Poured the Beer in Paddy's Coffin...