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...Gene O'Fallon, started Beverly off last autumn she has been setting her own alarm clock for 4:20. Reaching the studio by 5, she whiffles through her fan mail, sets up the morning's request numbers, grabs a bottle of coke. Current favorite among her recordings: Doin' a War Dance Down at the Cuckoo House, by Rudy Sooter and his Californians...
...Captain says, probably thinkin' that Tovey, bein' the admiral, might pick the easier of the jobs. 'No, you bloody fool, we'll ram!' old Splash says. Just then the Warspite* behind us signaled and asked him what the bloody hell he was doin'. 'Am pursuin' small detachment of Italian destroyers,' he signals back. But somehow the Warspite and some more of our battleships got in between us and them, and that's probably why I'm here havin' this pleasant drop of beer...
...Ethel Waters' richly varied voice Vernon Duke (April in Paris} provides a bright score, including Taking a Chance on Love and a ragtime fantasy concerning Negro sources in Ancient Egypt, My Old Virginia Home on the Nile ("There'll be doin's in them ruins when we come"). Determined to meet the hussy on her own ground, Ethel also swings her big, scarlet-clad body into the most massive cancan of the season. As the hussy, Negro Ballerina Katherine Dunham is a trim and flexible devil's advocate. Her dancers follow her through a series...
...doing all right now. Get me a big one. ... I feel like doin' a big apple...
Lynne Jaffee (Dressmakers' Union) minces like a millionaire, twitters to a line of strikers: "It's not cricket to picket." The show's dance specialty is Doin' the Reactionary. Slim Ruth Rubinstein (Corset & Brassiere Union), as Italy's Public Enemy No. 1 (because she produces only one little Fascist at a time), laments...