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Golden Girl (20th Century-Fox) is a corny musical pseudobiography of Lotta Crabtree, whose 19th Century theatrical career carried her from California mining camps to Broadway. Getting almost as much mileage out of his script, Producer George Jessel sets the story during the Civil War, rigs up a fictitious romance between Lotta (Mitzi Gaynor) and a dashing Southern spy (Dale Robertson), trots out a series of old-fashioned vaudeville turns, plays for tears, waves the flag (both Union and Confederate) and endlessly plugs such oldtime numbers as Oh, Dem Golden Slippers...
...know, the race goes off at 7:30 this morning, the crack a dawn, and the place is really jumping already. Over at the stables last night there was a lotta activity, what with dolls lining up guys in case they cop the classic today, and I even hear one young one say something about "doggin...
...uncommonly dull fight. All this left gentlemanly, music-loving Ezzard Charles nonplused and a bit plaintive. Said he: "I don't know what I have to do to convince them I'm the champ. I guess I'm like Stephen Foster. He wrote a lotta good music and they didn't appreciate him until he was dead...
...Reckoning. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Lotta M. Briggs was awarded a divorce after she testified that her husband kept her and the children awake night after night with the noise he made computing his income on an adding machine...
...shuffleboard game. Then Granillo tossed a couple of heavy shuffleboard weights across the crowded room. Bartender Edgar Gray (at right behind bar) told him to clear out. Trying to scare Granillo, Gray pretended to call the cops. "He started coming toward me," said Gray. "He started calling me a lotta names. I got rattled." From behind the bar he grabbed a pistol, shot and killed Eugene Granillo. Police held Bartender Gray on a homicide charge...