Word: merman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makes Strike Me Pink slightly superior to its more recent predecessors in the series of pictures made by Cantor and Goldwyn is not so much the elaborate production numbers, in which the Goldwyn Girls function as decoratively as usual, but the activities of an animated young woman named Ethel Merman. Long familiar to Manhattan stage audiences, Ethel Merman's previous cinema appearances have been trifling and unimpressive. In Strike Me Pink, cast as a cabaret entertainer who nearly demolishes Eddie Pink's romance with a wholesome blonde (Sally Eilers), she comes into her own, sings all three...
Bill Chalecki at present seems to be the outstanding merman on the squad. He is still handicapped by a lack of experience, however, as this is the first year that he has ever taken part in meets...
...preserved the appearance of a pleasant, reserved, phlegmatic Briton. Last week, ready to leave the U. S., h.e was asked to pose for news-cameramen. Gaily borrowing a camera, he stuck a press badge in his hat, pretended to be snapping Musicomedy Star Ethel (You're the Top) Merman (see cut). Asked in Manhattan for a statement on the state of the world, he declared: Gentlemen, in his next picture Charlie Chaplin will not talk but he will sing...
Harvard won all but two first places, losing only the 100-yard free-style after a nip and tuck battle between Donald McKay of Harvard and Eloranta of the visitors, and the 200-yard breast stroke, in which A. Dell nosed out Bob Heskett, Harvard merman. The team captured every second place...
...moments when The Big Broadcast offers its audience some respite from the story the most enjoyable are those in which Bill Robinson demonstrates that he is still the ablest tap-dancer in the world, Bing Crosby sings I Wished on the Moon and Ethel Merman cavorts with a chorus of elephants to a tune called It's the Animal...