Word: daffyness
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Served up with showmanship, it made a jolly evening. In the orchestra pit a lusty Army band fiddled and blew. Between playlets, enlisted men did smart tap dances, takeoffs, tricks. The playlets themselves varied in tone and quality : the two lightest were the two best. Pfc. John B. O'...
Here is one you may have missed. Rosiland Russell and Janet Blair (My Sister Eileen) in a daffy sort of comedy about two wet-behind-the-ears midwestern girls who hit the Big Town--and in turn get his by it.
Happy Go Lucky (Paramount) is a calypso excursion to Trinidad which lost its Hays office censors en route. The picture's mildly daffy happenings, concern Mary (My Heart Belongs to Daddy) Martin's campaign to capture a rich husband (Rudy Vallee). For Rudy, it is the second time...
Acting honors are pretty evenly divided between Hope and Crosby. Bob has the more sympathetic role--he gets kicked around by just about everybody--but Bing provides the perfect contrast, besides singing as well as ever. Definitely the weak sister of the featured trio, Dorothy Lamour looks adequate if nothing...
Up a 60-foot flagpole near Washington, up out of limbo shinnied the Daffy Decade's champion flagpole sitter, Aloysius Anthony ("Shipwreck") Kelly (see cut), who settled himself for a four-day perch, said he was going to try to get into the Navy when he came down. Durable...