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...show goes on (with guest stars including Groucho Marx, Dorothy Kirsten and Peggy Lee). The general effect, devoid of zest or originality, is more like a radio variety show than a movie. Hardened Crosby fans will probably like it, but others might do well to season their popcorn with benzedrine...
...wandering minstrel, or even a poet?-pitched his tent on Broadway last week. The show he proceeded to put on-The Lady's Not for Burning (see above)-made the very neon signs flush with youthful colors; the street's familiar smells of cheap popcorn and theatrical ham were overblown with a strangely innocent perfume. In the midst of the prosaic November which for decades has frozen the English-speaking stage, poetic roses were all at once in bloom...
...tongue-tied Christian, and Ralph Clanton as the haughty Comte de Guiche. Ferrer gives his role its full measure of lovelorn fervor, comic flair and wry pathos. Wearing the white plume with grand-mannered dash and strut, he also displays the kind of swordsmanship that ought to charm the popcorn set into listening to the poetry...
During the past few years, the sale of raw popcorn has skyrocketed 500%. Leaving no stone unturned to find out why, the National Association of Popcorn Manufacturers sent pollsters to question 200 families living in & around Chicago. Last week they had their answer: television. Of TV-owners, 4% eat hot, buttered, homemade popcorn every single night of the week. Another 10% eat it five or six nights a week; 63% indulge one to four nights a week...
...forced, to give Fancy Pants pace and consistency. Before it is over, Hope is attacking his material with the frantic determination of an untested comic who has begun to notice a certain restlessness in the audience. The result is not guaranteed to keep the peasants from reaching for the popcorn...