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...slips of paper sent up to him during "question period," Brown's favorite is one, submitted at the end of a very highbrow discourse, that read: "Will the speaker be so good as to give me Carmen Miranda's telephone number...
Master Rooney, Metro's No. 1 asset, now 21 and draftable, is given enough rope to hang himself. He does three so-called impersonations. His Harry Lauder and George M. Cohan are scarcely distinguishable; his conception of Carmen Miranda is painful. Apparently there is nothing he cannot do, except behave himself...
...daffy-down-hilly, though still heavily punctuated with gags and gunfire, "auction sales" and dancing in the aisles, black outs and whirring bats, actors chasing girls and women having babies. But the distaff side of the show makes itself felt with sultry, hip-shaking "Souse American Way" Carmen Miranda (The Streets of Paris}, brassy Ella Logan, peppery Dance-stars Rosario & Antonio, song-&-dance routines, puppeteers, jugglers, performers on a conch-like object called a sing-a-tina...
Week-End in Havana (20th Century Fox), Darryl Zanuck's third Good-Neighborly jaunt to a Latin American capital, is a Technicolored fortnight of lazing about, with songs, dances and Carmen Miranda. In its way, it is pleasantly subtropical...
Although most of the musical's score is feebly written, one tune (The Nango) is so enticingly illustrated by Miss Miranda and a very attractive chorus that it is almost worth the trip...