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...York stockmarket this week finally took its cue from the British market and bounced to 117-a new 1942 high for the Dow-Jones Industrial averages...
Chances are you've never heard of "Mississippi Mud." By way of explanation, Paul Whiteman's version of it was the rage of the late twenties, for Bix Beiderbecke's cornet solo and the Rhythm Boys' singing. Beyond a doubt Dinah took her cue from the record, but no one who has heard it will be surprised to know that she loused up the song good and plenty. In spite of all her speeches about how she learned to sing by listening to the Negroes back home, da-own Sa-outh, Dinah's singing has very little of the true...
...CUE FOR MURDER-Helen McCoy- Morrow ($2). The actor who portrayed a dying man in a Manhattan revival of Sar-dou's Fedora turns out to be very dead indeed when the curtain goes down. Psychiatrist-detective Basil Willing, working on tenuous clues and a wide knowledge of abnormal psychology, finally snares a persistent and excellently hidden criminal in a trap that almost ends the doctor's own career. Credible stage atmosphere and an airtight plot...
When an entertainer who is born on the 4th of July takes that as his cue to make himself a one-man patriotic holiday, he's bound to turn out to be an intriguing character. And when a vigorously produced and directed movie is based on his career, top-flight entertainment is the result. George M. Cohan is such a character: "Yankee Doodle Dandy" is such a film, and the sum total is just what might be expected...
Taking another cue from Hollywood, Houston trains his singing actors to master the delayed timing of gags (known to the profession as "takes and double takes"). Bob Hope is his model. Says Houston: "Our shows come out as plays with music." And tired businessmen have hailed them as "opera for husbands...