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Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (Russ-Field; United Artists) is a sort of shequel to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the movie musical based on the book and play by Anita Loos. Unfortunately, Brunettes offers no more than the top half of the composite girl of so many adolescent dreams. Jane Russell is present in all her mezzanine majesty, but Jeanne Crain cannot offer the customers any such full line of attractions as Marilyn Monroe...
These two quarterbacks accounted for 700 yards in passing last fall and may be an important factor tomorrow when they team up with the Redmen's veteran ends, Russ Kidd and Dave Ingram. Ingram, who stands six feet, three ices, received All-Western Massachusetts honors as a sophomore...
Shelly Marine & Russ Freeman (Contemporary). Two top West Coast jazzmen go just about as far in mutual understanding as a pair of improvisers can go. Drummer Manne is not only a good rhythm man, but treats his skins, tubes and disks with an uncanny ear for contrasts of color and pitch. Pianist Freeman is an able partner, matching idea for idea, sound for sound. His style falls somewhere between the burbling counterpoint of Lennie Tristano and the swinging drive of Dave Brubeck. An adventure...
...Deck (MGM) also has its distinctions. It is the only Hollywood musical about the U.S. Navy that has been released this week. As usual, the sailors (Tony Martin, Vic Damone, Russ Tamblyn) are assigned to watch not foreign straits but domestic curves (Ann Miller, Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds); and they dance so well it makes a taxpayer wonder if ballet lessons are now part of boot training. The dialogue offers few surprises. "I worship the ground you walk on," says Tony Martin. "Now he's talking real estate," says Ann Miller. The songs are old too. Somebody even sings...
...other members of the first team are wing Jack Murphy of Boston University, wing Bill Leary of Boston College, and defenseman Russ Kingman of Brown...