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MARY POPPINS. In Walt Disney's drollest movie in years, Julie Andrews works miracles as the rosy-cheeked young nanny who slides up bannisters and whisks the kiddies off to the airier reaches of a fantasy that offers many more lifts than lapses...
MARY POPPINS. In Walt Disney's drollest movie in years, Julie Andrews works miracles as the rosy-cheeked young nanny who slides up bannisters and whisks the kiddies off to the airier reaches of a fantasy that offers many more lifts than lapses...
...sooty male chorus in a raffish rooftop ballet. Ed Wynn, as the risible Uncle Albert, floats upward every time he laughs, and soon has everyone aloft for the movie's most engaging scene, a high high tea. Though overlong and sometimes over-cute, Mary Poppins is the drollest Disney film in decades, a feat of prestidigitation with many more lifts than lapses...
Unlike regular Quiz Kid shows, their first question-and-answer act with Benny was carefully rehearsed and gags for the program were supplied by Benny's writers. Rated the drollest Jell-O show this year, the program involved a question bee between the Kids and the Benny cast. Typical question addressed to the Kids: Name the five orders of fishes in order of their development, and give examples of each. Typical question addressed to the cast: If you had 20 apples and your mother took away ten and gave back five, how many would you have...
...Thee I Sing is the drollest, merriest musical nonsensity to come down the theatrical pike this season. There is good reason for it to be. The book is a product of wry George S. Kaufman (Once in a Lifetime }. The music, which rises at times to the antiphonal absurdity which he first provided for Strike Up the Band, is by gifted George Gershwin. Brother Ira, who with Brother George recently made an excursion into the cinema (see p. 19), has packed the lyrics full of foolishness and funny rhymes. Handsome William Gaxton and Lois Moran of the films, looking...