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...actual sized sketch was submitted Wednesday to an architect and is now being studied to determine the cost, which will probably be in the vicinity of $500. The Union Committee will supply the funds...
...expect anything like the stage version of "Call Me Mister," you'll be sadly disappointed. There are only a few pitiful vestiges of the revue, notably the "Going-Home Train" scene and the sketch about the Air Force's boy general. The plot concerns a G.I. in Japan (Dan Dailey) and his legally separated wife (Betty Grable.) The wife is with a female entertainment outfit called the WOOF's or WAP's or something equally non-existant. After a great deal of childness, the movie ends in a clinch while a gushing fountain gushes and revolving stages revolve...
Call Me Mister (20th Century-Fox) salvages the title, one sketch and three songs from the 1946 Broadway hit revue that celebrated the G.I.'s exultant return to civilian life. Now that olive drab is back in style, the Technicolored cinemusical re-enlists in the Army and uses the Japanese occupation as a backdrop for songs & dances by Dan Dailey and Betty Grable, World War II's favorite pin-up girl...
Hanslick knew what he liked, and could tell why. He admired Clara Schumann because her playing "is a most truthful representation of magnificent compositions, but not an outpouring of a magnificent personality . . . Everything is distinct, clear, sharp as a pencil sketch." But if Hanslick had never written a word about any other musician, his place in musical history would still be secure as the sharpest thorn in the sensitive flesh of Richard Wagner...
Morris doodles profusely, then puts each doodle out of sight to cool for weeks or months. Now & then he thumbs through them, picks one as the basis for a painting. His problem is to keep the childish freedom and directness of the first sketch while enriching it with color and emphasizing what it means to him. The Doctors carries a typical message: each of the three doctors is alone, they cannot agree on what is wrong with the patient the patient is also alone and without hope...