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Neville Chamberlain went back to England then, and many years later an Andros native, who had been on hand at the chopping, dropped over to Nassau and learned that Britain was at war and Chamberlain Prime Minister. "We gwine lost dat war," said Old Mose. "Chickcharneys doan lak dat man." And for a while it seemed he was right...
...apple in his mouth. Judy Garland is charming as the late Marilyn Miller and still more charming when she sings Who? Dinah Shore gives special warmth to They Didn't Believe Me and The Last Time I Saw Paris. Lena Home sings Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man and Why Was I Born? with as much careful intensity as if she were expounding existentialism. Frank Sinatra does Ol' Man River nicely but with a reverence that robs the song of its all-important drive. Robert Walker is Kern and Van Heflin is his arranger...
...Frank Sinatra, the co-ed's Caruso, sliding all over the range in an effort to bring this great folk-tune into the bedroom. Among the brighter spots are Van Johnson's cocky clowning through "I Won't Dance" and Lena Horne's delivery of "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" with the force of a tropical storm and the understanding reminiscent of the days when gals perched step pianos...
...Folks is lots littler now dan what dey wuz in dem days. . . . My grandaddy say dat his great-grandaddy would make two men like him, an' my grandaddy wuz a monst'us big man, dey ain't no two ways 'bout dat. It seems like dat folks is swunk...
...sample: in Joe's first fight, the referee, a ghastly old bruiser, turns out to be the brother of Joe's opponent. "When ya knock 'm out," he tells his brother, "go ta dat cawnah, Frankie, and I'll count." Then comes a belt-bursting belly laugh: to the pictorial amazement of the referee, Joe not only knocks Frankie out with one punch, but knocks him clean through the floor boards of the ring. But the canvas is unbroken and cradles him as he sags slowly, dreamily out of sight...