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...Banana (words & music by Johnny Mercer; book by Hy Kraft; produced by Paula Stone & Mike Sloane) is the most enjoyable show, considering how many things are wrong with it, that Broadway has seen in years. Few recent musicals have been so generally fast on their feet; fewer still have been so truly funny. And none has been more of a one-man show...
...King" Cole; Capitol). A new tune by Johnny Mercer from the forthcoming Broadway show, Top Banana. Both Mercer and Cole slipped on the skin...
...rambunctious shenanigans of the Top Banana are mounted in a colorful setting of good tunes and bad jokes. With Johnny Mercer responsible for words and music of some 16 songs it is hard to see how so much of the music should be so good while the lyrics are so bad. Several of the tunes are excellent; one, a comedy bit called "A Word A Day," is as clever as anything that appeared on Broadway last season, but the general level is much lower...
...long and devoted service to the children of his neighborhood, the Council also decided to name the traffic circle at Mt. Auburn Street and Elmwood Avenue after the late Professor William J. Harris. Harris built a bathhouse for the children of his Mercer Circle neighborhood as well as performing many other services for them...
...Petty Girl (Columbia) is an apocryphal account of how Calendar Artist George Petty awakened to his talent for drawing biologically improbable cheesecake. A freehand farce with some pleasant tunes by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, the movie is just as implausible as Petty girls-and almost as well-turned and diverting...