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What's Right for You (Lena Home; Victor). Lena's all aquiver about Topic A, agog with its possibilities, awash with its goodness. The tune is dressed up by some suggestive pianistic titters...
CinemaScope camera through the world's gaudiest gambling hell, he undergoes seven acts of vaudeville, two complete ballets, about 15 casinos, several thousand slot machines and an oil gusher-not to overlook Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Frank Sinatra, Lena Home, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Frankie Laine, Cara Williams, Jerry Colonna, Agnes Moorehead. Sammy Davis Jr., the Four Aces, the Slate Brothers, Peter Lorre, and something that looks suspiciously like a seven-year-old geisha girl...
...Love (Lena Home; Victor). Lovely Lena's light, smooth voice vibrates with happiness in this so-so song from Wonderful Town...
...winds on the Wichita Country Club course could throw Uruguay's Fay Crocker off her game long enough to let any other competitor get within reach of the U.S. Women's National Open golf championship. Second and third behind the steady Uruguayan's 299 came Mary Lena Faulk and Louise Suggs, both with 303. Only former Champion Patty Berg fired a single sub-par round, but she still finished fourth with...
...Omnibus comedy about a small-town lady crackpot; Ruth Draper's monologue about a Scottish immigrant at Ellis Island; Pianist-Comedian Victor Borge's skillfully timed spoofing of Mozart and Manhattan traffic ("Every empty taxi you see has somebody in it"); and Songstress Lena Home's high-tension version of The Lady Is a Tramp. Best of all: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's Barbara Bel Geddes and Bus Stop's Kim Stanley in a brace of crackling scenes (specially "blended" for the occasion) from their respective plays...