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...Steel Hour: Actor-Author Robert Emmett's You Can't Win lost its silly head completely but managed to keep its heart in the right place and a tickly hand on the viewer's funnybone. As he dum-tada-ta-ed the habanera from Carmen ("Greasy cup and dirty plate, I'll wash you up immaculate, da ta") in a café kitchen, Dishwasher Bert Lahr learned, that he had won an Irish Sweepstakes fortune. At last, he and his wife (Margaret Hamilton) could realize a great dream, "the one thing we both want most...
...supply their own explanation to his elaborate, whispered incantations. His message to grownups was to search everywhere for beauty. When death struck, Britain's Poet Laureate John Masefield wrote: "Walter has gone, the land's most charming son," but many could still hear the rum-te-dum rhythms...
...Dum Da Dum Dum. In Los Angeles, policemen closed in on Richard Sauer in the Citizens National Bank, caught him with a note demanding "all your fives and tens," hauled him off to jail after confiscating his toy badge and his plastic pistol labeled "Dragnet...
Marx has puffed his way through Webster in twelve years. Now, on the second time around, his favorite expression is Dum Vivimus, Vivamus, which can be freely translated as "Live It Up." He found the exhortation so appealing that he had it embroidered on a batch of silk neckties that he gives away. His newest favorite word is "charismatic," a theological adjective pertaining to one who has a divine endowment to carry on the work to which he was called. Understandably. Marx caused a sensation when he applied the word to Ike at a White House dinner before...
Pete Kelly's Blues (Warner), the second movie that Jack Webb-the big gun on TV's Dragnet-has directed and starred in, is pretty much the same old dum-de-dum-dumfounding stuff, but set in ragtime. Webb has cast himself this time as a sort of Prohibition era Lord Jim with a growl machine, a cornet player in a honky-tonk who caves in to a protection racketeer (Edmond O'Brien) and has to keep running from his conscience with the racketeer riding on his billfold. At last he runs into Janet Leigh, a flapper...