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Died. John J. McK'enna, 87, oldtime South Side Chicago Republican politician, and, as a leading ornament of McGarry's famous saloon at Dearborn & Madison, the original "Hennessy"-the constant companion and audience for Finley Peter Dunne's "Mr. Dooley"; in Chicago. Hennessy, for example, once observed that the country was going to the devil. "Hinnissy," replied the immortal Mr. Dooley, "F'r nearly 40 years I've seen this country goin' to th' divvle, an' if it's been goin' that long an' at that rate...
Where The Cradle Will Rock salted its proletarian thesis with genuinely funny satire, No For An Answer lacks wit - al though left-wingers will like its interpolated lampoon of a saloon-socialite singing I'm Fraught with You. Composer Blitz stein's jittery tunes occasionally develop into muscular near-melodies, are theatrically effective in the last ten minutes of the opera. For the most part they are sung, and sometimes talked, by people who were hired as actors rather than as singers. The production has a minimum of props and no scenery. No For An Answer, presented...
Showman Todd privately refers to his food-&-fun palace as "the saloon," but it is a red, white & blue giant, seating 3,700, employing 190 waitresses, 100 entertainers in the show and two dance bands (Jack Denny's & Johnny Gilbert's), 25 barkeeps at a 400-foot balcony-bar. Todd runs this monstrous pub on the principle of low prices and big volume. He charges 50? admission, offers dinners from 75? up, a champagne cocktail for 25?. His publicity boasts that he makes the quarter-of-a-dollar "the largest single unit of entertainment buying power...
...marked the peak of "My Little Chickadee." Closest to a really uproarious sequence is the capture of bank bandits Repulsive Grogan and Filthy McSnatch by the paunchy recluse of the Black Pussy Cafe. Thereby W.C. becomes local constable and straight Grade B Mack Sennett horseplay drags on and on. Saloon melees and a frantic automobile pursuit over mountain goat paths give the bulbous-nosed comedian a chance to display all his old along with a very few new tricks...
...happens when Gene goes back to his home town of Torpedo to act as honorary sheriff for a local celebration. The Wildhacks have been running Torpedo from an upstairs gambling room in their saloon, and poor old Pop (George "Gabby" Hayes), the good, grizzled, granddaddy of the town, has all but given up hope for happy days again. When Gene is slapped around by the Wildhacks, Pop has to take him out to Melody Ranch for some western air and exercise before Gene can dish out the necessary retribution...