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Wabash Avenue (20th Century-Fox) brings Betty Grable back once again to what a studio publicity release hails as a "tried-and-true formula" picture. "The studio apologizes," says the handout coyly, "for putting her into a satire [That Lady in Ermine'] and asks forgiveness for that time two years ago when it showed her legs only once in eight reels-to the consternation of enraged millions...
...What the handout does not mention is that the studio, in its ardor to be tried & true, has remade Coney Island, a 1943 Grable hit, in a Chicago setting and called it Wabash Avenue. It is still the story of two conniving, double-crossing gamblers (Victor Mature and Phil Harris) who wrangle over the ownership of gaslight-era cafés and the affections of Betty Grable. A different musical score mixes oldtime songs with new ones that are so reminiscent that it is hard to tell which is which. For that matter, the new picture is hardly distinguishable from...
...known that his decision would be announced in his Sunday sermon after he had knelt for six hours in solitary prayer to wrestle with the devil of indecision. The Rev. Bill prepared a publicity handout explaining his problem and what he planned to tell his congregation. "These last few weeks," he said, "have been the most difficult of my life . . . The threat of dirty methods has not been an important factor in my final decision. From rather good authority, I have been informed that whispering campaigns were already being planned, such as: 'society preacher,' 'gambling preacher...
...contributions to American democracy and to the progress of our country . . . This decision concerns only one question: Where with the talents given me by God can I best serve the building of His Kingdom?" To maintain the suspense, Pastor Alexander put a lady-or-the-tiger ending on his handout...
...Manhattan's Bowery Social Register (also known as The Almanac de Skid Row), blue book of U.S. hoboes. Blue-penciled out this year by Bowery News Editor Harry Baronian: Crown Prince Bozo, for conduct unbecoming a hobo; Frisco John, for abusing people who turned him down for a handout; Buffalo John, for taking a dental bridge from the mouth of a sleeping companion. In this year: Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay, for inventing a new poetic medium called Pling Plong; Box-Car Betty, ex-hula dancer and snake charmer, for research indicating that the flavor of a cigar...