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...biggest factors in keeping her name going have been the two magnificent re-issues in Decca's first Gems of Jazz album, and a fifteen minute Sunday radio program with Lou Holtz that hardly did her justice. With the last now off the air, and all but one of her Columbia records recently cut out, Mildred is represented by only eight Deccas--which the public isn't buying because of the terrible surfaces...
...Priorities" is a synthesis of musical comedy, circus, and burlesque. It begins with a three ring splurge of roller skating and ends up with Willie Howard's artistic interpretation of burlesque's favorite chestnut, the butcher boy skit. Lou Holtz, as a master of ceremonies, supplies, among other things, the only element of continuity to what might have been called "Vaudeville Incorporated." There's also a kick chorus, misnamed "The Versailles Beauties," who lamely present a tedious routine, but they don't appear often enough to do much harm...
...Holtz is consistently terrific with plenty of good hoofing, Lapidus jokes galore, and some fine ad libbing between the halves. The audience can retort if it dares enter in competition, but Holtz looks like a tough nut to crack. At times the actors mingle with the audience in a restrained sort of way and one lucky lady in a second story box has the pleasure of waltzing a few measures with Funnyman Willie Howard who, at the time, plays a drunk Scotsman to heckle Holtz from a new angle. Paradoxically, a large part of the show is devoted to classical...
...least it doesn't try, as previous shows have, to revive vaudeville by reviving decrepit vaudeville acts. Here & there it is cluttered with bric-a-brac from the old homestead; otherwise Priorities proves a cozy, informal meeting place for two generations of actors. Among the veterans is Lou Holtz, who, carrying the same old cane, cracking the same old jokes with the same old skill, acts as master of ceremonies-and Willie Howard with his long-suffering look, low-comedy antics, and fine assortment of accents...
...stumbled out of their cells and were riddled by firing squads. They were trade-union leaders, "Communists," men suspected of helping the British or Free French. One was not a Frenchman but an Anamese from Indo-China. But still the men who had shot Lieut. Colonel Karl Friedrich Holtz were free. Not even the promise of a sizable fortune had persuaded their friends to betray them to the Ger mans. General von Stülpnagel announced that he would shoot 50 more hostages if they were not found...