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...Whooey. Every one knows his job. Every cook makes a contribution to the broth. Playwright Abbott provides a sound book (least brilliant part of the show) ; Director Abbott, whirlwind direction that keeps it moving, moving, moving; Comic Jimmy Savo contributes wild-eyed dimwit mischief; Fat Girl Wynn Murray, dishpan antics and Amazonian sex threats; Lorenz Hart, brash, bawdy, witty lyrics (best line: She was so chaste that it made her very nervous); Rodgers, a gay, bright lilting score, never better than it is in This Can't Be Love, Sing for Your Supper...
...directed the company so successfully that by October 1937 Guaranty had paid two preferred dividends of 15? and 10? a share, aggregating approximately $750,000. More than 3,000 letters testified to the gratitude of stockholders. One woman had her roof fixed with the $2.50 she received, took her dishpan back to the kitchen at last. One oldster of 94 years found 80? reason enough to thank God and Murphy...
...Garnet Carter, owner of Fairyland Club, built the first Tom Thumb golf course, complicating an ordinary 18-hole putting course with ingenious hazards. Last week to Fairyland went putters from many corners of the U. S. to roll balls through hollows, to carom them from banks, down tunnels, over dishpan water hazards and around basket-size sand-traps in the first national Tom Thumb championship...
...sketches themselves at times are rather forced to beat a dishpan to excite humor. But Winnie Lightner, abetted by the insouciant Will Mahoney and the boisterous Patricola, carries them along by dint of magnet ic personality, sometimes called high animal spirits. And the revue contains two of the best travesties on darky melodies ever perpetrated...