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Next day, Corrigan made a few public cracks about his parson uncle, the Rev. S. Fraser Langford. Stories about him "teaching me navigation and me living in his home are a lot of hooey. . . . The guy . . . started sending me cables to appear in ... night clubs, . . . and him a preacher, at that." Day later, at San Francisco City Hall, beside Mayor Angelo Rossi, he noted the Irishmen on the reception committee (Quinn, Riordan, Casey, Murphy, Reilly) : ". . . From the names ... I figured I was back in Ireland. And here I always thought you were all Eyetalians up here." The crowd tittered uncertainly...
Marriage Announced. Jon Hall (real name: Charles Locher, pronounced Lo-shay), 25, muscular, part-Tahitian cinemactor (Hurricane), second cousin of Hurricane's co-author James Norman Hall; to Frances Langford, 25, cinema singer (Palm Springs, Bom to Dance, Hollywood Hotel) who was a soprano until a tonsillectomy made her a contralto; in Prescott, Ariz.; secretly, fortnight...
...ship that brings Ted, Mush & Gunny home a submarine instead of the usual dreadnought. Everybody seems satisfied with the plot as they pair off in the Lonely Hearts Club with Hey, Babe, Hey! a novelty song and dance that is the season's high for cinemusical contagion. Frances Langford is a good dancer for a girl who can sing as well as she can and Buddy Ebsen, her foil, has a good comedy voice considering he is also the No. 1 U. S. eccentric tap dancer. With Una Merkel and Sid Silvers clowning through the Cole Porter words...
...Springs (Walter Wanger) is an attempt to commercialize the publicity which fan magazines and travel agencies have lavished on a colony of luxury hotels perched on the rim of an extinct volcano in the desert 125 miles from Los Angeles. The narrative concerns the efforts of Joan Smyth (Frances Langford) to snare a rich husband (David Xiven) in order to repay her father (Sir Guy Standing) for his sacrifices in earning a living as a gambler to provide her with the luxuries of a fashionable school. She ends by marrying Slim (Smith Ballew), owner of a dude ranch...
Unfortunately, Penner has lost his memory and does not know who he is, with ensuing complications. The only difference it makes to the picture is that Goo-Goo is missing most of the time and Penner's acting suffers from it. Francis Langford is quite pleasant as the secretary of the school but she seems to have had a lapse of judgment when she falls for Oakie who looks utterly stupid with a newly found moustache...