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Stand Up and Cheer (Fox) contains a penguin dressed to resemble Jimmy Durante; a song called "I'm Laughin'"; a grand finale parade, showing Hollywood chorus boys and girls waving their arms in time to ah anthem called "We're Out of the Red." None of these is any better than it sounds...
From Admiral Byrd's S. S. Jacob Ruppert at 68° South Latitude, 124° West Longitude: "This morning we picked up our first penguins. . . . The cry 'Penguins' brought men to the rail from all parts of the ship. Many jests were cheerfully flung at these merry creatures. It is possible they understood. After one or two looks at this amazing vessel . . . they hastily dropped down on their bellies and with their flippers working like connecting rods scuttled away. . . . Their cheerful industry offered this consolation. Where in the whole world is there a creature with a harder...
...stage and on becomes a ghoulish poison running through the unconscious town. The butcher inexpertly throws an axe at his wife. Jim Clancy jumps off the pier at low tide. It rains and rains. Finally the local member of the Dail Eireann, an odd character who looks part penguin, part shellfish (Ralph Cullinan), is moved by his recollection of a performance of Playwright Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People to vote against the Government and force a new election. That is enough for the town's hotelkeeper and political boss, played by the best Irishman...
...College Inn night club, and the Fort Dearborn, a low-priced house catering to railroad workers. Ernie Byfield is president of College Inn Products, Inc. (not in receivership) which claims to have invented the tomato juice cocktail. Last year as a publicity stunt he imported 20 dozen penguin eggs. The Customs House promptly impounded the eggs for violation of the Federal law forbidding the importation of wild fowl eggs. Wrote Ernie Byfield to the Customs House: ''Let me assure you that the penguin, even in its natural habitat, is not a wild bird. On the contrary...
...Penguin Pool Murder," on the same bill, is a moderately entertaining but trite mystery-comedy, with occasional good bits of performing by James Gleason and Edna May Oliver...