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...paper has had its share of famous reporters (Frank O'Malley, Will Irwin, Alexander Woollcott, Edwin C. Hill, etc.), and still has a stable of byliners, including Critic Ward Morehouse, Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Paragrapher H. I. Phillips. By long custom, Sun editorial writers are anonymous and stay that way: Francis Pharcellus Church, who wrote the famous "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial on short notice in 1897, had to wait until his obituary (1906) to get credit...
Perhaps the most glaring of these is the radical change in Father O'Malley. In "Going My Way" he was a genial but forceful ecclesiastical troubleshooter who reinforced a sagging church; in the sequel he is transformed into a jovial buffoon guilty of every imaginable blunder...
...Father O'Malley's (Crosby's) new parish, Ingrid Bergman is the nun in charge of 'St. Mary's Parochial School. Sister Bergman's school is a firetrap. Rich old Mr. Bogardus (Henry Travers) is putting up an office building next door and wants to have St. Mary's condemned so that he can use the property for a parking lot. But Sister Bergman and her nuns pray night & day that mean old Mr. Bogardus will see the light and give up his fine new chromium and steel office building to the school...
Archie (Ed Gardner), the Duffy bar tender, is feeding and boozing 14 unemployed exservicemen in the back room, strictly on his frayed cuff. Their former employer, O'Malley (Victor Moore), is clumsily trying to connive the shellac and the funds to reopen his record factory...
What with one misunderstanding and an other, both Archie and O'Malley face a thorough legal shellacking. They are saved when practically all the Paramount players who could be rounded up stage a benefit show. The acts, stronger on noise than on finesse, reach some sort of climax in Cass Daley's confident rendition of You Can't Blame a Gal for Tryin'. Best acts: Betty Hutton singing The Hard Way in self-explanation to a psychoanalyst; Eddie Bracken suffering superbly as a double in a horse opera; Robert Benchley showing Bing Crosby's four...