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...WEEP. There will be some program changes, occasionally some subdued music, and commercials beamed to a general audience. But for the most part, WILY fans will not be disappointed in WEEP. Announcers will still bray crazy commercials; odd-voiced groups will yell the lyrics to Chicken Baby Chicken, Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On, and assorted other tunes "to endure traffic jams...
...even a new direction. In the gilt-and-red-velvet San Carlo Opera House (not air-conditioned), 703 delegates, plus party bigwigs and hangers-on, listened to some 100 speeches over the course of four days. On the top tier of boxes a huge banner read: Il Partito nella Lotta per la Democrazia (The Party in the Struggle for Democracy...
...place to live. Well, I say the best place to live is where you've got a good job. That's the best place to live. When you move into a town, through the Alumni Association you meet people who can do you good. They'll do you a lotta good, and you'll do them a lotta good. That's the Business School spirit...
Treading lightly at first, the film soon begins taking itself as solemnly as Gone With the Wind, and seems to last almost as long. For a couple of reels Lotta yearns for the stage before Producer Jessel lets her go on; then he takes her on a tour that dawdles like an actor poring over his scrapbook. Her suitor follows on horseback. First she thinks he is a gambler, then a bandit, before he emerges proudly as a Southern patriot...
Jessel hits his last sequence like a drummer going into a sock chorus. Lotta is in mid-performance in a big New York theater. A letter arrives, seeming to seal the death of her lover in a Southern hospital. Suddenly her father (Hoofer James Barton) rushes in to announce that the war is over. Tearfully, Lotta goes to the center of stage and sings a mournful chorus of Dixie to the outrage of the audience. Her partner (Dennis Day) steps out of the wings, gives the New Yorkers a lecture that echoes Lincoln's "malice toward none," and soon...