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Phil plays a passable clarinet, Mimi at best has a middling voice, and their humor -which leans heavily on Mimi's buck teeth-belongs to the Keith-Orpheum circuit of three decades ago. In a way, they are so bad that they are disarming. There is a youthful nice-kid quality about them, and an innocent gaiety that captivates audiences: Ford and Hines were an instant national hit when Jack Paar gave them a guest shot last August...
After that, snaking through Washington Street came a car caravan with the Mayors of Woburn, Malden, Melrose. Chelsea, Somerville, and Watertown. The procession reached Loew's Orpheum in twenty minutes. They were expected. Huge banners hung across Washington Street, and a bank of gigantic revolving search-lights striped the air white and red. By the time the important guests began to arrive, the crowd was a panting mass of humanity. Police lines were trampled and girls screamed...
...become a staple of calendar art, was reproduced on candy boxes, postcards, cigars and suspenders. Purity leagues demanded its suppression. Postcard reproductions of the painting were forbidden the mails. Art dealers were even arrested for handling them. It became the subject of stock gags on the old Keith-Orpheum circuit, and inspired an anonymous couplet that swept the country...
Teahouse of the August Moon has Marlon Brando, who speaks flawless Japanese. O-so, at Loew (State and Orpheum...
Downtown, Secrets of the Reef, at the Exeter, La Strada, at the Kenmore, War and Peace, at the Met, and Bandido, at Loew's State and Orpheum...