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Earl Carroll's Vanities (Music & lyrics by Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler; dialog by Jack McGowan). "Perhaps I'm a doddering old softie," 0. 0. Mclntyre admits in a preface to the Vanities program, "but in these blizzardy days of a world in chaos it seems heartening that to Earl Carroll nothing is ever lost, that there is no such thing as defeat and that life itself can be a perpetual triumph...
...rather than a "gag comedian." He never tells an off-color or race story, does not sing or dance. He buys some of his jokes from the Broadway "gag" factories, but writes most of his performances himself, working several hours a day on them. Wynn broadcasts consist of fast dialog between Funnyman Wynn and Graham McNamee. The latter does little talking except to feed cues. The program is punctuated by musical selections. Typical Wynn prattle: "The opera tonight. Graham, is very unusual ... the title of it is 'When You Were Eight and I was Nine and We Were...
...tower by its president and shown the view. Mr. Smith only takes friends to the tower. Cartoonist Edward T. Brown of the Herald-Tribune drew a picture of Mr. Smith at the top of the building with the Democratic donkey baying below. The title was "Treed," the dialog: "Come on, Al. Just one speech for Roosevelt...
...pattern is growing a thought too familiar. Not that Author Wodehouse never uncorks anything new. Hot Water, his latest offering, shows him a keen student of U. S. vaudeville gags, funny sheets, Walter-Winchellisms. It is a tribute to his skill as a merciless horser of musi-comedy scenes, dialog and situation that he is still able to raise many a horse laugh. Packy, U. S. Adonis, ex-Yale footballer and recent millionaire, has bitten off more than he really wants to chew in getting engaged to a beautiful English bluestocking. Fat, henpecked Mr. Gedge is in an even tougher...
...love with Richard Dix who spurns her, until in the last reel they all escape with surprising ease to the river. No credible picture of modern China, Roar of the Dragon is fair melodrama. White men and women maintain copybook virtues in the unspeakable shadow of Mongol bloodlust. Typical dialog: "You don't know Voronsky." "Only casually; I just...