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...musical at the Colonial, "Texas, Li'l Darlin'," starts off promisingly enough. After the overture, a lantern slide of the cover of a large picture magazine, similar to "Life," is flashed upon a screen, to the accompaniment of March of Time-type music and the pontifical voice of a news commentator. The idiocyncrasies of the Luce Press are favorite sport among the satirists this season anyhow, and so--you say to yourself, perhaps--here is musical comedy's own gay potshot at grey-eyed, balding China-born Henry Luce. But disillusionment, as occasionally it must to all theatergoers, came last...
Kenny Delmar, who appears on radio as Senator Claghorn, is making his stage debut in "Texas, Li'l Darlin'" as Hominy Smith, a dishonest, scripture-quoting State Senator in the Lone Star State. Mr. Delmar turns out to be a good actor and his Hominy Smith is a more toned-down characterization than Claghorn, and also more amusing. Unfortunately, Mr. Delmar can not sing, and this being a musical, he is occasionally called upon to do what...
Saints and Sinners (London Films) is a muggy Irish shenanigan. Like many a European movie, it takes an arty, patronizing view of the lower classes. Its argument is that every peasant is a darlin' in wolf's clothing, quaint by virtue of his avarice, hypocrisy and superstition. This reworking of a sentimental notion turns up nothing new except some well-oiled character acting...
...last of their queens were wealthy Mrs. John R. McLean, a Virginia lady of formidable presence, and her convivial, raucous daughter-in-law, Evalyn Walsh McLean, who died in 1947. Evalyn wore a diamond (the Hope) as big as a tiger's eye, and called men impartially "darlin' boy." At her crowded parties (at the old and new "Friendship"), men had to bring their brains with them; Evalyn delighted in pairing mortal enemies at dinner. Said an old friend, admiringly: "Evalyn had spite...
Riding the crest with their leader were "Fat Frank" Golet, K. Cceedric Robinson, "Darlin' Dickie" Prescott, and Jimeee Scanlon...