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Whistling in Brooklyn (M.G.M.). Whistle in Brooklyn, and sooner or later a Dodger will turn up. They all turn up toward the climax of this melocomic fracas, in which Red Skelton clowns around in House-of-David-style false whiskers in order to warn a police inspector that the trusted friend sitting next him at a ball game is a homicidal maniac. The story is strenuously pasted together for laughs, but some of its comic assault & battery hits the funnybone, while Red Skelton, his idiotic beard and imbecilic lack of interest in the game he is supposed to pitch, sometimes...
There is also a prolonged slapstick struggle with murderers aboard an old ship. And at one nightmarish juncture M.G.M.'s scripters manage to hang Skelton, Rags Ragland, Ann Rutherford and Jean Rogers, in a gently swinging human chain, from the top of an elevator shaft. High comic moment: Red Skelton, as anchor-man for this gibbering pendulum, decides to rest his hands by letting go and standing on the shoulders of Rags Ragland, who is desperately clinging to Skelton's ankles...
Richard ("Red") Skelton, comedian classified 1-A after his wife divorced him last month, was also acceptable...
...opening show set the pattern for the series: two masters-of-ceremonies (Cinemactress Anna Neagle in London, Actor Philip Merivale in Manhattan); two orchestras (Glenn Miller's A.A.F.T.C. band and the London Fire Service Orchestra) ; British comedians Flanagan & Allen v. U.S. comic Red Skelton; Irving Berlin from Bristol...
There was an abundance of talent as well as food and drink, and the program, carried along smoothly by the able efforts of master of ceremonies Skelton, was brought to a rousing strip-tease climax. Lieutenant Pradley's spirited rendition of the bare-it-all ballet was undoubtedly the hit of the evening...