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Right now, though, the field events are the weakest department, except for the shot-put, where big Pete Garland, a Noble and Greenough product, bids fair to top all records. Tossing the iron ball lightly behind him are Sandy Wheeler and Charlie Burns...
Dick Pfister, standout gridiron guard and top shot putter for Jaakko Mikkola's track squad, leads the Crimson competitors. Others entered include Johnny Shattuck '43, Jack Bonner '43, Cliff Howard '44, Pete Garland '45, and Alex Wheeler...
Mickey Rooney, who would rather be caught dead than underplaying, has his hands full when he encounters bright-eyed Judy Garland. He is one of a trio of hopeful hoofers billed as The Three Balls of Fire. She is a would-be singer. Their careers are joined when he offers to produce a show for the benefit of some settlement children who need a month in the country; they are jolted when his professedly philanthropic activities (the show is for his benefit, too) cease to remind her of Lincoln freeing the slaves...
From that point Miss Garland, now 19 and wise to her co-star's propensity for stealing scenes, neatly takes the picture away from him. Rooney cannot sing, but Judy Garland can, and proves it pleasantly with such sure-fire numbers as Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones; a new tune called Hoe Down; and a misfit: Chin Up, Cheerio, Carry...
...real criticism is that everything in the picture is an excuse for something else that doesn't quite happen. The director spends half an hour of action and dialogue working up to a point where he can get Judy Garland seated at a piano and Mickey Rooney saying. "Oh, even if you can't, let me hear you just for the fun of it," and then she is forced to warble a flock of notes that the Hollywood songwriters bunched together between floor shows at the Brown Derby. Virginia Wilder doesn't help. Well, there is no use in going...