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Leading lady is witty, torch-singing Ethel Merman, whose face is as plump as her voice is sharp. Anything Goes further boasts the services of debonair William Gaxton and wistful Victor Moore, respectively President Wintergreen and Vice President Throttlebottom of Of Thee I Sing. Funny as Victor Moore was as Throttlebottom, he is funnier still as "Moonface" Mooney, Public Enemy No. 13. Disguised as a parson, he is forced to flee the country on an ocean liner, soon attaches himself to Billy Crocker (Gaxton), a playboy following a long-lost sweetheart, and Reno Sweeney (Merman), an evangelist turned night club...
...Millions (Samuel Goldwyn). A Brooklyn tugboat youth named Eddie (Eddie Cantor) inherits $77,000,000 from an uncle who was an Egyptologist. When he goes to Egypt to collect his legacy, his task is complicated by an unscrupulous Virginia grandee, a male and female racketeer (Warren Hymer and Ethel Merman), a naive agent of his solicitors who loves the Virginian's niece (Ann Sothern). On the boat, Eddie barely escapes death at the hands of the racketeers. In Egypt he is lured to a sheik's palace, narrowly misses being boiled in oil by the sheik, being murdered...
...Milles, when a boy, tried to run away to sea, was stopped by his father. But sea motifs have always played through his art, and fountains are his favorite and best subjects. He de signed a fountain of Tritons for McKinlock Court at the Chicago Art Institute, a jolly merman and mermaid for a Stock holm public square. He studied under Rodin, was for a time submerged by his master's style but finally broke away, developed a style of his own which experts today consider as genuinely MILLES as Michelangelo's was MICHELANGELO. He has the grave...
...famed "strip" routine in the split-second of removing their last skirt and flouncing into the wings. He had caught the slovenly posturing of the chorus on the runway. Other series showed the chorus of Take a Chance (TIME, Dec. 12) swirling their skirts, Jazz Singer Ethel Merman in consecutive poses of singing "Rise and Shine," colored Ethel Waters singing ''Stormy Weather," Actress Lynn Fontanne Lunt making up her face, and the show girls of Manhattan's low-priced Paradise night club stepping languidly onto the floor, topheavy in vast headdresses. From unposed angles of posed spectacles...
...Take a Chance"--Apollo, 42nd Street--A regular rollicking Broadway musical comedy. Excellent dialogue from Jack Haley and Sid Silvers, and silver notes from Ethel Merman. A sure...