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...dance movie with enough plot to justify its dialogue and enough needling satire to make some points. Fair Weather's good fellows who get together are Gene Kelly (also, with Stanley Donen, the film's co-director and co-dancemaster), Dan Dailey and feather-footed Michael Kidd, the dancer and choreographer, in his first film role. Returning to the U.S. when World War II ends, the three army pals, mutually jittery about the prospects of renewed civilian life, ricochet up and down Manhattan's sleazy Third Avenue in one of the most ably choreographed binges ever unreeled...
...Imperial Poona Yacht Club, he donned a pith helmet and led his cronies in spoon-hammering sea chanties. Said one Cowes pubkeeper: "There's pirates 'round Cowes at regatta time, and Uffa's the worst of the lot." Lusty Uffa Fox certainly has a touch of Kidd and Blackbeard about him-at least in the eyes of landlubbers, whom he has shocked all his life. Uffa got into boats the hard way - as a 14-year-old Cowes shipbuilder's apprentice. After a World War I stint in the Royal Naval Air Service, he bagged...
...Toll Road Commission for advice on selecting the agent. Says Director Wedeking with Indiana frankness "If they ask our advice, we give it-and if somebody has been running around the state condemning the governor, we forget he's in business." One big commission went to Linn Kidd, an insurance man who was one of George Craig's first political backers. A wise politician, Kidd decided to let others share the largess. Among the men that he selected was Republican State Senator Wesley Malone, a Clinton insurance man, one of the two original sponsors of the toll road...
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Stanley Donen and Michael Kidd knock off a randandy of a musical, the best since An American in Paris; with Howard Keel, Jane Powell (TIME, July...
Boys can do their own Simonizing and cleaning with the Kidd-E-Kar Wash kit ($3); girls can cook with a big choice of toys featuring miniature cans and packages of such brand-name products as Campbell Soup, Betty Crocker Cake Mix and Suchard Chocolate. They can clean with Marilyn Products, Inc.'s battery-powered Electrikbroom Jr. ($7.98) and make their own perfumes (Rajah's Scent, Power Dive, Boing, Shmooth, Jeepers...