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...took over. The following year, all the kiddie stars were lisping the lyrics of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and 1952 brought the coyest Christmas hit, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. This year's subadolescent hit, if any, is slow to show, but according to both M-G-M and Columbia, a number called Nuttin' for Christmas is showing frightening signs of life. Sample lyrics, usually sung in a piercing whine...
...Harris: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (Nell Tangeman and chamber group; M-G-M). A deeply pulsing lament of heavy piano chords (played by Composer Harris' wife Johana) and elegiac countermelodies played by the violin and cello. Mezzo-Soprano Tangeman sings the Vachel Lindsay words with power and feeling to produce some fine music...
MOVIE-TV BATTLE will soon be intensified by a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer giveaway gimmick aimed at luring children and parents away from TV sets. Quaker Oats, will insert tickets to two new M-G-M movies in each, of 80 million packages of cereal. The free tickets can be used only by children under 12. The catch: they must be accompanied by an adult-who will have to pay regular admission...
Guys and Dolls (Samuel Goldwyn; M-G-M), as a Broadway musical, had all the vulgar swagger of a fink* with his mink at 4 a.m. on the crosstown, and a lot more salt than the lox in Lindy's. It was not really Runyon, just as Runyon was not really Broadway, but as a pinstriped fairy tale with garlic on its breath, it made an honest-to-Gotham hit, and it ran for three years...
...Tender Trap (M-G-M). "Wow!" says David Wayne. "What a waterhole!" David is on vacation from marriage and the Indiana Pharmaceutical Co., and Frank Sinatra's plushy New York apartment is an ideal deer park. As the fair game begins popping out in all directions, so do David's eyes. A smooth little blonde glides out of the bedroom; she promises to come back soon and bring Frank some fish. Another goldilocks jounces in the door-"to walk the dog," Frank casually explains. An Amazonian brunette, with the look of a lady wrestler in search...