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...Pacific will seem-as it may well be-a perfect union of film and footlights. For others, a musical play will have to rank a bit higher as drama than South Pacific, if the loss in dancing, décor, and musicomedy's festal airs is not to smack of larceny...
While doing so, "Doc" Webb ran smack up against the 1939 fair-trade laws which Florida, and 44 other states, had passed at the insistence of organized druggists as protection against price-cutting. When Webb put on a sale of Hiram Walker whisky below the fair-trade minimum...
Cool-eyed Conchita Cintron, 26, the world's top woman bullfighter got the cold shoulder in Mexico. She flew into Mexico City, ran smack into opposition from the local bullfighters' union: their ring, where she had wrung oles from the crowds eight years ago, was now no place for a woman. Back in 1940, Peru's Conchita had airily remarked that Mexican bulls were passable, but not nearly fierce enough to suit her taste...
...enough alone, but has gone at ticklish human problems with the red hot pincers of melodrama, and has so loaded itself down with wiles and theatrics that it finally caves in. There is so much plot that there is no real plight; the words, like the deeds, smack at times of garish melodrama...
...Dailey. He is cast as an old-time burlesque comic and a man who knows the pleasures of rye whiskey. When he also turns out to be pretty much of a goon around the ladies, he loses his wife. Penitent and thirsty, Mr. Dailey proceeds to booze himself right smack into Bellvue. This kind of involved business takes a lot of heavy weepy acting to pull off and Dan Dailey simply can't do if. The result is embarrassing, both to Mr. Dailey and to the audience. It is particularly bad in view of the fact that his spin through...