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...Victor Moore to shortchange the customers is almost as if Tiffany's were to fake a hallmark; but by digging up a wormy act he appeared in 40 years ago, Moore has managed to do it. Billy Gaxton has a better skit, which is still not good enough. Hildegarde, the darling of the supper clubs, sings songs that badly need highballs and dim lights, and for a fully grown girl acts entirely too cute. Only headliners who deserve to be headlined are the Hartmans, whose take-offs on ball room dancing are familiar to many, but still funny...
...swaddling clothes as a professional entertainer. A painter by training and profession, Mostel was only the hit of his friends' parties until February, when a press agent landed him in a Manhattan night spot, Cafe Society. Since then he has been signed for the forthcoming Victor Moore-William Gaxton show Keep 'Em Laughing and last week rode off on a 13 -week Basin Street contract...
...Milquetoast Senator from "a No'th'n state," to root out the stench that made New Orleans famous. Moore is superb, and he is the only member of the cast who isn't handicapped by the failure to speed up the tempo of the movies. Bob Hope plays William Gaxton's original role and while Hope is always good for his share of laughs, his somewhat peculiar talents are rather wasted here...
...book, the songs, and sets are still fresh and vigorous, even though the show opened in New York more than two years ago. You may be familiar with Irving Berlin's slick music, but it still rings bells. And the indomitable team of William Gaxton and Victor Moore, assisted by Vera Zorina and Irene Bordoni, troupe with spontaneous humour through the riotous plot. Maybe they did make a movie of it with Bob Hope (and if your think he's a good, watch Gaxton slip on a girdle), but "Louisiana Purchase" is basically and essentially one of the top examples...
...serious, and rotund Mr. Moore, innocency personified, it is Senator Oliver P Loganberry, "The Watchdog of the Senate," detailed to New Orleans to investigate the machinations of the Louisiana Purchasing Company. Boss Man William Gaxton is anxious to prevent the Senator from making his investigation and attempts to sabotage shy, misogynist Oliver by filling him with "Mississippi River Water," planting Vera Zorina on his lap, and then snapshooting the scene. Baffled by Loganberry's purity, Gaxton tries again, plants Irene Bordoni in Oliver's bed, but the Senator tops his enemies again by marrying the buxom Madame Bordelaise. Louisiana triumphs...