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...only sour note in this best musical of recent date is the weak attempt at acting by Glenn Miller. Once he lets go of the baton, his part might as well be played by a frozen penguin. In the second feature George Sanders plays "The Gay Falcon" to a slightly bored Wendy Barrie and a very bored audience who have seen such grade D mysteries oh so many times before...
FOREVER FREEDOM-Josiah C. Wedgwood and Allan Nevins-Penguin Books...
...filling Marguerite Bay. The ships put into Melchior Harbor, 200 miles away, waited a month. Supplies dwindled. The 26 at East Base radioed that their meat was gone, they were eating penguin eggs. The Bear slogged through the ice to a point 112 miles from the base. The weather grew worse; the men had to be taken off at once or they would be locked in for another winter...
...string, cost the boss many a duck. He passed on to soda jerking, pharmacy, shoe selling, then started a one-room Bricklaying College of America with an unemployed Assyrian bricklayer as the faculty. Moving into show business he ran a road show whose star was a trained penguin, wrote gags for Hellzapoppinjays Olsen & Johnson. For the Chicago World's Fair he devised a moth-&-flame dance in which the flame left the moth in the nude (several moths got burned in rehearsals). Thereafter he produced Broadway flops, sold Santa Claus paraphernalia to stores, raised enough money to produce...
Crude slapstick has taken over stage and screen at the Keith Boston. "Spook House," better half of a double feature, is a four relier in which bedroomless newlyweds and aroller skating penguin run Dead Pan Buster Keaton a grotesque rat race. All the old Mack Sonnet gags are used--only the lack of a custard pic tossing scene indicates that the show wasn't filmed twenty years ago. On the stage, Hollywood's Three Stooges appear and disappear in person...