Word: doo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show. As a onetime vaudeville headliner reduced to the want-ad columns, a sort of daftly faithful hound for the heroines, this wonderful clown does little that is new except find his long-lost son, in the picture's funniest shot. But when, leering fiercely, he sings Inka Dinka Doo, or when, in hyper-Dostoevskian mental conflict, he confides Did You Ever Have the Feelin' That You Wanted to Go, he gives pleasure of an intensity roughly equivalent to saturation bombing. Jimmy Durante remains living proof that demonic energy can be used for something better than breaking civilizations...
Block's chief job at present-aside from pointing up the patter of visiting entertainers-is doing the script for Yankee Doodle Doo, a radio show starring Vic Oliver, Winston Churchill's son-in-law. The program goes out to U.S. and British troops, hopefully designed to teach them each other's slang, humor, point of view...
...chant "Doo-chay, Doo-chay, Doo-chay I" urged Mussolini to make an ap pearance. He did. For the first time since Dec. 11, 1941, he lifted up his chin and spoke in the Piazza Venezia...
...Fascisti chanted "Doo-chay, "Doo-chay, Doo-chay I" as before. But they were not distracted from the ills at home. At week's end Mussolini's new party secretary, Carlo Scorza, sickeningly aware of impending invasion, offered the Italian people a prescription to be taken internally. Said...
...late, great Clayton, Jackson & Durante act, able to concentrate on his own mad, multileveled comedy which Hollywood usually heavily diluted with other men's ideas. He brings on his old partner, Eddie Jackson, partly to strut, mostly to stooge; fetches his fans with old favorites like Inka-Dinka-Doo; he insults waiters, lambastes bus boys, beats up the band, heaves lamps, flings around telephones, rips apart pianos, surges to a high-slaughter mark of comic violence...