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...similarly chilling material given Comic Bert Lahr and Patter Merchant Doc Rockwell leaves them no choice but to freeze with it. Although Ballerina Alicia Markova rises above an unexciting Stravinsky ballet to display her dazzling technique, she misses the final magic of her dancing. Benny Goodman, as usual, toots his clarinet with equal skill in a hot ensemble and a classical solo...
...Rainbow Room bought Charlie's raillery. In keeping with this swank setting, McCarthy appeared in top hat & tails. Then Rudy Vallee put him on the air. Bergen had finally found his proper medium of communication: the microphone. Previously, many of Charlie's asides and much of their patter had been lost to the audience. Swift give-and-take (mostly give) is the essence of McCarthy's humor. Now everybody could hear...
...matted hair, the black-rimmed nails, the bony, bared chest. She got hold of one emaciated hand, brought her ear closer to his face, called his name, but he did not hear her. His blackened mouth continued moving. She bent down and heard a child's broken, muted patter-the young man on Anna's sofa was back in the nursery, afraid of dark corners and curtained windows, and, listening, Frossia was ashamed of her earlier hardness...
...slick French newcomer last week joined the ranks of America's refugee publications. Title: Tricolor. Descent: from London's La France Libre, blitz-born champion of French resistance. Contents: literary appreciations of the French underground; elegant patter on a Paris midinette's chic triumph over her ersatz clothes; letters of Marcel Proust; essays on Vichy doubletalk, wartime Paris, Painter Pierre Bonnard. Editor: André Labarthe, brilliant ex-physicist, intellectual foe of Vichy, onetime friend of Charles de Gaulle, former Giraud minister, now an OWIer...
...characterization, a lot of heat into the songs Now I Know, Tess' Torch Song. But the heart, liver & lights of this cinemusical is Danny Kaye (of Broadway's Lady in the Dark and Let's Face It), making his screen debut. Kaye's mimicry, patter and general daftness are as deft as a surgeon's incision...