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...Kissing Bandit (MGM) pokes some good-humored fun at the buskin-and-bluster heroes of costume melodrama. The picture itself is only a costume piece, with a little vaudeville thrown in. Its best features are the broad comedy by J. Carroll Naish, the sentimental songs sung by Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson, and some lively Spanish dances...
...scattered industry), the good news spread. Publishers who had been hoarding their best tunes for months, trying to keep them out of the "corn belt" (i.e., giving them to harmonica outfits to record), were riffling through their desk drawers. Bandleaders were set for hurried rehearsals; Crosby, Como and Sinatra weren't straying too far from their telephones. Last week, after ten months, it looked as if the record ban was about...
...lead to fascism? One professional philosophizer who sided with "Oxonian" was bush-bearded C.E.M. Joad. To accept Ayer's assumptions, wrote Joad, would be to agree "that there is no meaning in the universe . . . that it means nothing to say that Beethoven is a greater musician than Mr. Sinatra . . . that all talk about God ... is twaddle...
Like all gossip columnists, Irv Kupcinet finds nightclubs exciting, and gets some of the excitement into his column. Every night, sportily dressed in a shirt with long Sinatra-style points (and with KUP loudly emblazoned on his handkerchief, tie clasp, cuff links and gold ring) he patrols such spots as Chez Paree and the Shangri-La, slapping backs, sipping coffee, soaking up column items. His red-haired wife tags along, often wearing a blouse stenciled with his columns. He haunts the Pump Room of the swank Ambassador East Hotel, a telephone plugged in at his table. Even at home, where...
...York: Confidential! (Ziff-Davis; $2.75), may last a little longer than some of the others. It is a cynical, side-of-the-mouth guidebook that prices everything from pizzerias to call girls; Lait wrote it with his nightclub columnist and protégé, Lee Mortimer (the man Sinatra socked). Having sold 20,000 copies in its first fortnight, and sold to the movies for $50,000, it is off to a better start than Lait's The Big House (200,000 copies...