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Vivacious Lady (RKO Radio) guffaws incontinently over the plight of a man (James Stewart) and a maid (Ginger Rogers) who are early to wed but late to bed. The man is a young biology professor, the maid a blonde, high-kicking cafe singer. Flimsy, bedroom-farcey, Vivacious Lady fetches predicaments from afar to eke out its plot to feature length...
...skating this was more important than all the other events of that pretentious show-a "George Washington Ball"; a ballet set to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake; a "reproduction" of the Currier & Ives skating print; the appearances of Toronto's Louise Bertram & Stewart Reburn (the Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers of skating), of Comedian Eric Wait with his absurd walking stunt, of 83-year-old Skater Oscar L. Richard, who can still cut a Grade A outer edge...
...part as a romantic song and dance man far less seriously than usual. Burns and Allen are their own ridiculous selves--funny at times, silly at others. Joan Fontaine, Mr. Astaire's leading lady, takes no part in the humor but is a refreshing change from the usual Ginger Rogers...
...cries. Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote with tears in his eyes that Snow White was the happiest event since the Armistice. By last week, only rare exceptions to this consensus had been filed. The New York News humphed editorially: "Nevertheless, we'd rather see seven reels of Ginger Rogers, Jeanette MacDonald or several others. . . ." And last week the New Masses, following its Marxian line, grumped that Disney had bowdlerized Grimm's "savage and moral" tale, had turned out a version "a little too genial," with "too much of the trees-in-the-breeze quality...
...offices of Ireland and the United Kingdom. Again Shirley Temple topped the list. Last month the Herald's 1937 international survey found Shirley still top favorite. Other leaders, in order: Clark Gable, William Powell and Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper, Gracie Fields, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers and George Formby (English comedian), Jane Withers, Jeanette MacDonald, Sonja Henie, Myrna Loy and Laurel & Hardy...