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George Tobias and Lenore Lonergan play the comedy leads. Tobins tells ancient jokes, postures, grimaces-but fails to entertain. Miss Lonergan, by far the superior performer, is sometimes able to make the audience believe that what it sees and hears is clever; but when she leaves the stage, apathy takes her place. Jack Cole and his troupe of dancers are occasionally interesting; more often they merely wiggle their hands and chase one another in circles...
...only one. Lenore Lonergan, another featured player in the show, and an expert comedienne, has no volume for singing, much less a voice, and she, too, is given songs to sing. Assuming that the lyric writer (Johnny Mercer, in the current case) has something to say, it would be good to hear what it is. Miss Lonergan can not be dismissed, however, as a total failure. In fact, in her non-musical moments she contributes more to the comedy than any of the other performers...
...area has its own history of brutality and violence. Near the foot of 46th Street, Nathan Hale was executed in 1776. In more recent years there have been less heroic deaths: the Veronica Gedeon murder, the Titterton and Lonergan killings...
...Norman Krasna; produced by Joseph M. Hyman and Bernard Hart) is a sure-fire popular comedy about the young, exploiting an amusing (if familiar) situation for comedy, farce and romance alike, and framing it in the fat plush of family life. A teen-age brat named Miriam Wilkins (Lenore Lonergan) has long and lushly corresponded-in the name of her older sister Ruth-with a young overseas flyer. Suddenly the flyer (John Dall) turns up, all set to marry Ruth-who is all set to marry someone else. To soften the blow, Ruth (Virginia Gilmore) agrees...
...Batchelor drew the cartoon the Daily News: 1) covered the world's battlefronts in 90¾ column inches of type; 2) devoted 184¼ in. to six crime and sex stories. To the Daily News (circ. 2,000,000), Russia was worth 34¾ in., the Lonergan trial 55 in. The entire Pacific war theater rated 3 in., the Major Horace E. Dodge divorce case, 21. The Battle of Italy was less than half as news-valuable as the Chaplin trial (24 in. to 51½). More striking still was the "news" ratio in William Randolph Hearst...