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...Blue Gardenia (Warner) cooks up a better-than-average whodunit out of some rather commonplace movie ingredients: a dead artist (Raymond Burr), a beautiful murder suspect (Anne Baxter), and a dynamic newspaper columnist (Richard Conte) who solves the crime...
...nobody spends a night at the Pops just to listen to music. The gardenia-scented lobby and transformed first floor (chairs and tables instead of conventional scats) bring to Symphony Hall an intimate, informal atmosphere which has been often copied but never duplicated. And when the music starts, competing against the incessant pop of champagne bottles and the gay chatter of the audience, there can be little doubt that the concert is nothing more than a musical party...
Efficiency Check. Canada's present unofficial hangman learned his trade and adopted his name from an earlier Hangman Ellis* who died in 1938. The earlier Ellis worked in a frock coat and striped trousers and sometimes sported a gardenia in his lapel. Occasionally he handed a stop watch to a newsman attending a hanging, so as to check on his own efficiency. His successor, an Ontario farmer, goes in for no such display...
...Gardenia in Hair. Fortnight ago, eleven days after being released (72 days off for good behavior), Billie made her comeback in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. It was jampacked (300 were seated on the stage) with a crowd of Holiday cultists whose hysterical applause gave the event the quality of a revival meeting. They were telling their martyred Billie that nothing mattered, just so she was back, and that for their money (up to $3.60 a head) she could do no wrong...
Made statuesque by her 30 added pounds and sporting as always a great white gardenia in her glossy hair, Billie took her homage like a queen. Her voice, a petulant, sex-edged moan, was stronger than ever although she had done no singing at the reformatory. Seemingly tireless and with only three days of rehearsal behind her, she sang 32 numbers, mostly cultist favorites like Billie's Blues, All of Me, Fine and Mellow, and the throat-tightening Strange Fruit...