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Captain E. D. McMorries, medical officer in command, backed him up. Said Captain McMorries: "The decorum of the institution is paramount...
...exciting New Orleans Negro jazz of Cornetist Bunk Johnson-TIME, Nov. 5.) Some of Nick's parishioners were scattered among Condon's opening-night audience, lost among the celebrities and the Hoosiers. "You know, Hoosiers," explained Condon, himself the ninth child of an Indiana saloonkeeper: "the Paramount-once-a-week, glass-top-bus crowd. They stick around hoping to get into a picture. I don't mind the Hoosiers. They can come down, sit down, shut up, drink and get charged...
...Stork Club (Paramount) would be just another slightly silly cinemusical if it were not for a super-amiable performance by Barry Fitzgerald and a super-dynamic one by Betty Hutton. Fitzgerald has a chance to play rich and poor, stingy and generous, angry, whimsical, sour and wistful. Betty Hutton is permitted to make funny faces, wear a bathing suit and imitate the voice of Walter Winchell. Her songs are undistinguished but her uninhibited way of putting them over is an eclectic mixture of Harlem and Bali, with a shout from the heyday of Ethel Merman and a gesture from...
Masquerade in Mexico (Paramount) is the kind of movie that even Hollywood has learned to kid itself about: the kind of cinemusical, full of song, formula-romance and predigested local color, that is usually glimpsed casually and piecemeal inside another cinemusical. But this time it is left to stand alone...
...like a "little colonel" around the studio. Goetz approached dark, dapper Leo Spitz, 57, Hollywood's legal and financial know-it-all. A boy wonder (he earned his Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Jurisprudence degrees before he was 21), Spitz masterminded the reorganization of both RKO and Paramount when they were on the rocks...