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Hold That Blonde! (Paramount) is a direct lineal descendant of one of Hollywood's biggest breadwinners during the '20s: the Harold Lloyd comedies of confusion. Eddie Bracken, in a pretty good modern imitation of the Lloyd hurlyburly, teeters precariously on the ledge of a skyscraper, wrestles with a drunk at the frail end of a flagpole and is chased through a maze of hotel corridors by a sinister set of hoodlums...
...usual vaudevillian pattern of brief appearances by a large number of well-known Paramount characters is followed to the letter. While it obviously isn't art, it is undeniably good, or at least varied, entertainment. There are, in fact, several numbers which go over very well, particularly a humorous biography of Crooner Crosby, narrated quite cynically by Bob Benchley to Crosby's four equally cynical sons...
...Paramount's latest block party is typical of all these potpourris. It is based this time on the popular radio program, Duffy's Tavern, and it is held together, flimsily as usual, by the attempts of amiable Ed Gardner, the inimitable Archie, aided and abetted by the perennial Victor Moore, to put together a block party (surprisingly enough) with all the available talent from the Paramount...
...long list of stars must take a back seat to Paramount's latest find, though Ed Gardner's many fans could have told us years ago about this new-found "Maggotism, personal maggotism." This modern Malaprop steals the show with his classic but chering of the King's English, and his latest crack about Duffy and his money--"That guy, if he can't take it with him to Heaven, positively won't go!"--more than atones for the rest of the ordeal...
...treating eastern Europe as a special Russian preserve and at the same time extended its claims far south into the Mediterranean and Red Seas. Only in two areas-Germany and the Far East-were relations between the U.S.S.R. and the Western powers undisturbed. Significantly, these were the areas of paramount importance, where neither the Western powers nor Russia could afford to endanger the peace...