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...acts, a big cash prize ($1,000), dancing cigarette packages (Old Golds) and a studio crowd slavishly applauding everything in sight, including the commercials. In repartee with the amateur panelists (a device Groucho Marx has used with immense success) Allen's gift for ad lib is supposed to shine forth. Shine it did on the first show, but all too briefly in the half-hour clutter of people and performance. The acts-a girl singer, a ballroom dance team and a pair of "electronic harmonica" players-were adequate but undistinguished, raising the question whether another talent show is really...
...express the music. Her voice, which last winter often verged on a maudlin wobble, was fine-grained and pure even when she let it out in the climaxes. She ranged from such a lighthearted number as Lucky To Be Me to a torchy version of Come Rain or Come Shine to a dramatic monologue about a girl who gets picked up by the man on the next bar stool; she managed to tinge them all with the air of a woman who has lived and loved...
...Lewis get tangled up with treasure-hunting mobsters and perambulating zombies. When he is not being locked in a trunk or imprisoned in a haunted castle's torture chamber, Jerry also imitates Carmen Miranda, and Dean sings (I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine, San Domingo). Interesting bit players: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. For Comedian Hope, Scared Stiff must seem like very old stuff. It was called The Ghost Breakers in 1940, when Hope played the lead in a far funnier and scarier movie version of the old (1913) stage play...
Help Wanted. That Mickey is now playing for New York is due partly to good Yankee organization, partly to good Yankee luck. Always conscious of the 67,000 seats in their Bronx ballpark, and of the fact that even their stars seldom shine for more than a dozen years, the New York club owners could well hang over Yankee Stadium the sign: HELP WANTED. In the late '40s they were sending the word down through their scouting and farmclub network (today: some 30 scouts, ten farm clubs) to find a new crop of infielders, outfielders, pitchers and catchers...
Dixie Treat. In Washington, B.C., the Bureau of Internal Revenue announced that it had seized some Alabama moon shine whisky, selling for $2 a pint, made from the following ingredients: half a gal lon of water, one quart of orange juice, two pints of gin, one small jar of sassafras flavoring, a dash of sugar, half...