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...matriculates at the end of this week, Boston,--the finishing school for so many artists and shows aspiring to success in the battle for life on Broadway--will have turned out another graduate with an almost unanimous vote of Most Likely to Succeed in the Fall Class of '41. Olsen and Johnson and company have earned well their summa cum laude. Old father "Helzapoppin" has a worthy son to carry on his side-splitting traditions...
...eagle-beaked, serious-faced John P. Medbury, veteran newspaper humorist and radio gagster. Like most Medbury scripts, this one takes full advantage of his enormous library of humor, which includes everything from the Encyclopedia of Comedy to 10,000 Jokes, Toasts and Stories. He has written for Burns & Allen, Olsen & Johnson, Fred Astaire...
...reminded us of nothing so much as a slightly milder "Hellzapoppin" with a plot tagging along behind. Like the Olsen and Johnson show, it presumably will draw sophisticated snubs from the critics while packing the mobs in by droves. It has political satire, murder mystery, and slapstick in about equal portions, and there's a good chance that you'll be sitting near one of the cast if you're in the orchestra. The plot involves a couple of violent deaths which only add to the fun, and the leading character is Tom Dewey minus mustache...
Critic Hammond was in for a long pestilence. For George Olsen and His Music, then playing at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel, picked Who? and made a sensational arrangement of it. Victor transferred the arrangement to a disc, and soon the exciting, eminently singable melody was the U.S.'s hit tune. Today it is a popular "classic" that has outlived both Marilyn Miller and Percy Hammond...
...Rowing Association Regatta for 150-pound crews, which comes off a week from next Saturday. The boat which will start against Yale and Princeton is as follows: Snell Robinson bow, Haskell Schell 2, Dick Moot 3, John Ellison 4, Armiger Jagos 5, Locke 6, Francis Cunningham stroke, and Albert Olsen...