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...neighbors in Brooklyn said that the honest, hard-working, little suit salesman, who had sen Willie Sutton by chance and turned him in as any civic minded citizen would do, seemed to be living beyond his known means. These sidelights were just filler to pad out the hot story of the day. But they were interesting filler...
...weeks. Two on the Aisle, a series of twenty spearate sketches, shows that vaudeville satire is still funny but that Lahr and his rubber face can be stretched only so far. Out of the twenty scenes, four are uproarious, five more are amusing, and the rest is standard mediocre filler...
...filler sketches center either on a torch song by Lahr's attractive co-star Delores Gray or some mild mass choreography by the troupe. Miss Gray has a pleasant torch voice, but songs like There never was a baby like my baby are pretty thin. The many dance sequences, mostly people in purple suits running to and fro about the stage to some quickly forgotten tune, are unimpressive. Unfortunately this filler drags Two on the Aisle down to the level of just mild entertainment...
...statement to the Sun, Malott claimed that the material came from random notes in his speech file. He added that it had come to his attention in the form of some "educational handout or filler paragraph in a weekly newspaper which was printed with no reference to source or authority...
Last week the old minstrel's old song, prettied up and cut in half, was in fifth place on the hit parade. A quartet called the Weavers, recording (for Decca) with Gordon Jenkins' band, had used it as a filler to back Tzena, Tzena. Helped along by Jo Stafford, Frankie Sinatra, et al., the filler had just about caught up with third-place Tzena...