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...weeks Cartoonist Al Capp had sent his Li'l Abner chasing after Lena the Hyena, the ugliest woman alive. Just how ugly she was, Capp wisely left to his readers' imaginations. Every time she appeared, a big "DELETED" showed where her face should have been...
Fans of the Li'l Abner comic strip last week recognized the unmistakable face of Frank Sinatra. He promised Daisy Mae Scragg that he would sing her song: Li'l Abner, Don't Marry That Girl. Objective: to prevent Abner Yokum from marrying Lena the Hyena from Lower Slobbovia. To Abner readers it was no more unusual than most of Creator Al Capp's fantasies -until Sinatra last week actually sang the song on his Wednesday night show...
Just to please Li'l Abner, Capp had Gooch come through. From "Frank Half-buck, the great explorer," he heard about "Lena, the hyena from Lower Slobbovia." Because the very sight of her turned men's spines to jelly, she had to be (so far, at least) an offstage horror. The trouble she would make only handsome, happy Al Capp, who makes more than $150,000 a year out of such antics, could tell...
Elsewhere the talents of Victor Moore, Kathryn Grayson, Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, Keenan Wynn and Lena Home peep through the shuffle and bustle. The whole is well-buttressed, as the Master would surely have it, with the Technicolored verities of the half-naked female form...
...continuous entertainment policy is upheld by an alternate group under the baton of Sherman Freeman, also a tenor-man and Newton alumnus. Upon all too rare occasions a gal named Shirley Mhore sits in on vocals and makes you forget all about people named Lena Horne or Billie Holliday. The grapevine has it that in a few weeks Shirley will go on the payroll. That would really be a break for jazz in Boston...