Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning they streamed into Baton Rouge-wool-hatted farmers, "Cajuns" with whiskey on their hips, gamblers, cattlemen, oilmen, old folks and bobby-soxers. They came by train, bus, automobile and even on yachts. The Longs were coming back into power: Huey's greying, gravel-voiced brother Earl was being inaugurated governor of Louisiana...
When Governor Earl arrived on the wooden stadium stage, 211 newly appointed colonels were on hand to applaud him. Said the governor: "If anybody else wants to be a colonel, just let me know." When a 19-gun salute banged out in his honor he cracked: "I hope nobody got shot." The crowd roared. It cheered again when he paraphrased brother Huey: "I hope to see this a state where every man is a king and every lady a queen, but no one is wearing the crown...
...Earl did his best to prove a post-election brag: "We'll improve on everything Huey did." The entertainment went on & on. There was a baseball game, swimming exhibition and music by countless bands. There was also some unscheduled entertainment. Children dropped buttermilk cartons from the top of the stadium and one woman was conked by a falling whiskey bottle...
Leonard Osborn turns in a magnificent performance on vocal and acting levels as Earl Tolloller, and Richard Walker is fine as his friendly rival, the Earl of Mountararat. Richard Watson does his brief bit as Private Willis perfectly. Perhaps the weakest member of the cast is Charles Dorning as the male love interest, Strephon. Dorning's voice and style, while certainly adequate, are not up to the abilities of his fellows...
Living-1948 (Sun. 4:35 p.m., NBC), California's Governor Earl Warren...