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...follow soon, before and with the frost. In western Canada last week 140,000,000 ducks (a 10% increase over last year, 450% more than in 1934) flocked and fattened for the flight south. The great conservation experiment in North America's wild duck factory had hit the jackpot...
...Negro Carmen Jones, the lovely Lehar waltzes of The Merry Widow. Possibly barring One Touch of Venus, musicomedy failed to produce a single decent score, and nowhere produced even a halfway decent book. The net result was an unprecedented string of fancy-figure flops-My Dear Public, Jackpot, Artists and Models, Allah Be Praised...
...game, the brothers' religious interest paid off in a big way. A clergyman friend, the Rev. Charles Kingsley, brought them a novel he had written called Westward Ho! "The right article and no mistake!" cried Alexander. He was dead right. Two years later the brothers hit the jackpot again with Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays. Soon they added Thomas Huxley and Matthew Arnold to their list, gained wide prestige with Palgrave's Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics and The Cambridge Shakespeare...
...Jackpot (book by Guy Bolton, Sidney Sheldon & Ben Roberts; music & lyrics by Vernon Duke & Howard Dietz; produced by Vinton Freedley) is a large-scale musical that ran to telephone figures and adds up to zero. Considering how many smart people are involved in it, Jackpot seems almost like a conspiracy of dullness...
...Jackpot tells of a beautiful girl (Nanette Fabray) who agrees to marry the winner of a huge War Bond raffle. The winner is three Marines, and it takes many dreary double-entendres and much dreary horse play to get two of them...