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Star Time (produced by Paul Small) is a creaky vaudeville coupé kept moving only because Lou Holtz, a tireless master of ceremonies, is between the shafts. There is one big-time act: the gracefully dancing De Marcos. Otherwise, harmonica players wrench the eardrums, songbirds ravish the mike, top-hatted Benny Fields suggests a crooner in a cinemusical about the early...
Stepping delicately across the eggs they have laid, Holtz again proves himself one of the best yarn-spinners and smooth-delivery boys in the business. He unveils all the acts, barges in on most of them, joshes the down-fronters, throws birdshot at the producer. He smooths out his old jokes without a wrinkle, tosses in a few less fetching new ones, continues the long saga of his best pal and mealticket, Sam Lapidus...
...waiter asks "What are you going to eat today?" Burns is likely to reply "What am I going to eat today?" The character of George Burn's offstage conversation is better suggested by the fact that his best friends include Jack Benny, Harpo Marx, Lou Holtz and Bert Lahr. Though he travels in such fast company; Straight Man Burns has no trouble keeping ahead...
...attack was three-pronged, striking at Massacre Bay, Holtz Bay and Blind Cove. As the lighters pressed on the beaches at Massacre Bay to spill their cargoes of men, tanks and artillery, there was no sign of the enemy except for sporadic machine-gun fire...
Within a week the partially completed bomber strip near Holtz Bay was in U.S. hands. Ridge after ridge was captured, until the defenders were compressed into an area of 20 sq. mi. U.S. losses were lighter than had been expected...