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...Never Get Rich (Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, Cliff Nazarro; TIME...
...show itself is no extravaganza with bevies of beauties pouring out of cornucopias. It is an intimate musical comedy strung on an adequately comic story of U.S. Army rookies, and glittering at intervals with the shining beads of Astaire's exhilarating, airy acrobatics accompanied by Rita Hayworth's lambent looks and legs...
...favorite dancing master (Mr. Astaire) is caught in the draft and, unable to control his feet or his temper, becomes a permanent resident of the camp guardhouse. His favorite chorine (Miss Hayworth) turns up at camp in the wake of an Army officer (John Hubbard). She eventually solves everything by marrying the jailbird. Comic honors go to swivel-tongued Cliff Nazarro, double-talker extraordinary, who spreads utter confusion whenever he opens his mouth. The picture is well done and well directed...
...high spots of the show come when its six Cole Porter melodies (not full-strength Porter, but good) tickle the dancing feet of Astaire & Hayworth. The best of them (Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye), jived in the guardhouse by a steaming Negro quartet, sends Astaire into one of his oldtime paroxysms of unabashed American buck & wing. Three others (one a nifty named Boogie Barcarolle) accompany the new dance team through routines that are light-hearted evidence of the fact that Rita Hayworth really knows dancing. Ballet-trained, as is Astaire himself, she is his first cinema partner with classical...
...Miss Hayworth is not unappreciative of her potent effect on males of all shapes and disposition. Unlike many of her Hollywood sisters, she prefers being feminine to being out-of-doorsy. One of her prime functions, Rita thinks, is to be glamorous...