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...singing voice is pleasant but weak and is not (as with Ethel Merman, her partner and predecessor in this glorification of vulgarity) a thing which is funny in itself. Miss Walker must rely on her wide variety of comical walks, certain headgear which always manages to get in her eyes, outlandish get-ups which frequently hide all but that jutting chin, and a face that could never be forgiven, were it anything but funny. Above all this, Miss Walker has the common touch. (To which she would surely reply: "If its common...
...Biggest box office during 1947-48: 1945-46's Annie Get Your Gun, with Ethel Merman...
Bing Crosby (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). Guest: Ethel Merman...
Trumpet-voiced Benay Venuta (real name: Benvenuta Crooke) had come a long way from the San Francisco wharfside where she sang in the '20s. She has had a Broadway career (as a sort of second-run Ethel Merman) and a few big scenes in the movies. This week, at 36, Benay will step up to a microphone and a new career in radio as quizzer on a parents v. children stunt called Keeping Up with the Kids (Sat. 8:30 p.m. E.S.T., Mutual). The show calls for no singing, but that's all right with Benay. "I hope...
...addition to the merman and the varsity, hockey and basketball squads, whose schedules have already been printed, the freshman and jayvee sextets and the yardling bucket brigade and tank corps all meet the Blue on the same date. A home meet with Yale winds up the season for the Jayvee quintet on March...