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...convened they jammed the galleries, carrying paper bags full of lunch. They jostled each other, talked loudly, and spat tobacco juice on the marble walls. They damned Governor Arnall. Bawled one: "Say, did you hear they give Arnall a medal at Noo Orleens for bein' the biggest nigger-lovin' governor Georgy ever had?" As the session dragged on, many took off their coats and slept...
...roast apple in his mouth. Judy Garland is charming as the late Marilyn Miller and still more charming when she sings Who? Dinah Shore gives special warmth to They Didn't Believe Me and The Last Time I Saw Paris. Lena Home sings Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man and Why Was I Born? with as much careful intensity as if she were expounding existentialism. Frank Sinatra does Ol' Man River nicely but with a reverence that robs the song of its all-important drive. Robert Walker is Kern and Van Heflin is his arranger...
...with Frank Sinatra, the co-ed's Caruso, sliding all over the range in an effort to bring this great folk-tune into the bedroom. Among the brighter spots are Van Johnson's cocky clowning through "I Won't Dance" and Lena Horne's delivery of "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" with the force of a tropical storm and the understanding reminiscent of the days when gals perched step pianos...
...such tunes as Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, Bill, Only Make Believe, have ever really waned in popularity-and 01' Man River has become more famous than most folk songs. Back in their original places, the tunes have almost all their original pull. One new song, Nobody Else but Me, which Composer Kern wrote before his death last fall, finds itself in too fast company...
...those home-lovin' guys...