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...That's the first Ah heard of it." Warming to the notion, The Pelvis burbled: "If Ah thought it'd do any good, Ah'd just take ma guitar an' get right out there on the front lines. Wouldn' that be somethin'-me singin' an' playin' ma guitar an' bullets whizzin' all 'round like in Hungary!" Then, carried away by the vision, he manfully declared: "If Ah can keep world peace, Ah'll go over an' sing...
...later, includes such diverse items as Count Basie's swinging Straight Life, Joe Newman's Midgets, Charlie Parker's Air Conditioning, the Modern Jazz Quartet's Django, oldtime Trumpeter Papa Celestin's When the Saints Go Marching In, legendary Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke's Singin' the Blues, and a rousing number called I'm All Bound 'Round with the Mason Dixon Line, by the day's interviewee, Dixieland Trumpeter Jimmy McPartland. Between numbers, Conover quietly and succinctly tells about the next record or gently nudges his guest to talk about...
...Party standin' over it with foot on its neck and wearin' the crown of victory. I see Thomas Jefferson lookin' out from a cloud and sayin', 'Give him another sockdologer: finish him.' And I see millions of men wavin' their hats and singin', 'Glory Hallelujah...
...whole picture is a happy surprise. The songs (words by Johnny Mercer, music by Gene de Paul) are fresh; the dances (staged by Michael Kidd) are wonderfully prancy; the screenplay (by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich and Dorothy Kingsley) is fairly funny without taking itself too seriously. Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain) does a fine kind of under-direction that leaves the picture looking as though it just happened. Even the Ansco color often tastefully fits the mood of the wide-screen scene...
...rotating stars (the others: Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Bob Hope) of the TV Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Even Hollywood took another, longer look at its perennial adolescent. O'Connor began to get good song & dance jobs in such top-budget musicals as Singin' in the Rain and Call Me Madam...