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Waikiki Wedding (Paramount) exhibits Bing Crosby crooning pseudo-Hawaiian ditties through a wreath to the accompaniment of innumerable hula-hulas. As Tony Marvin, he is the indolent press-agent of Imperial Pineapple, spends his time lolling on his schooner with a hillbilly called Shad Buggle (Bob Burns). One of Marvin's sporadic publicity ideas is to choose a "Pineapple Girl" who would come to Hawaii for three weeks, syndicate her enthusiastic impressions. Winner is one Georgia Smith (Shirley Ross) of Birch Falls, Iowa, who wants romance not pineapple. Imperial Pineapple orders Tony to provide it. When crooning fails...
This mild pleasantry is as excellently suited to Bing Crosby's mild acting talents as its soft Hawaiian tunes (Momi Pele, Okolehau, Nani Ona Pua) are suited to his deep warbling. Comedy is ladled out by Martha Raye, who distorts her vast mouth and yowls, and by Bob Burns, who to get laughs uses a pig named Wafford instead of his former "Bazooka." This amiable razorback is by far the funniest member of the trio, steals the show by oinking at suitable moments, winning a blue ribbon at a dog-show, then exhibiting a most distinctive canine trait when...
THIS LIFE I'VE LOVED-Isobel Field- Longmans, Green ($3). The step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson recalls with a benevolent serenity unusual in artists' memoirs, her varied life in Nevada mining camps, San Francisco's art colony, Hawaiian King Kalakaua's court, in Samoa as amanuensis to Stevenson during his last days...
...prepared to move from her Kauai acres to the biggest ranch in Oregon, whose 275 square miles include the site of the massacres that frightened off her ancestors. Her husband, big, friendly Frederick Warren Wichman, onetime Stanford University oarsman and footballer (Class of 1914), seven times Representative in the Hawaiian Legislature, bought the famed 200,000-acre Hay Creek sheep and cattle ranch east of the Cascades near the village of Madras, 150 miles southeast of Portland...
...biggest and costliest maritime strike in U. S. history dragged into its seventh week of deadlock. Characteristic of the lack of violence with which this struggle has progressed was the friendly chatting of Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast strike leader, and Roger D. Lapham, president of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., as they waited their turns to debate the strike in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium before a capacity audience of 15,000 (see cut). Characteristic of the stubborn determination which has made the strike a clash of irresistible v. immovable was each debater's proclamation that his side would...