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Conditions in the local theaters are sad, too. Loews is proud of a Technicolor Tommy Dorsey and a badly hacked, deleted Cole Porter score in "Du Barry Was A Lady." The RKO, on the other hand, likes its outrages in the flesh, and consequently has both Tommy Tucker, and--of all people--Margie Hart, singing--of all things--a parody of "You Made Me Love You," dedicated to Mr. Minsky...
Best Foot Forward (M.G.M.) is an effervescent edition of the Broadway musical hit by the young, of the young and, especially, for the young. It has almost the same cast, but Winsocki prep school has become a military academy (uniforms look nice in Technicolor) and who should be playing for the prom but Harry James, the Svengali of the Solid Senders...
Dixie (Paramount) is a dull, none-too-faithful account of the career of Dan Emmett, author of Dixie, and one of the four Original Virginia Minstrels of 1843. Even the personality of Bing Crosby as Emmett, plus the great historic theme song, plus Technicolor, cannot enliven the picture's turgid progress through three conflagrations, too many minstrel shows leading to fame & fortune in New Orleans. When Crosby sings, fans will not be critical. But much of the time he is engaged in crude, unconvincing romances with Marjorie Reynolds and Dorothy Lamour. And most of the time the minstrelsy...
Coney Island (20th Century-Fox). The Technicolor cameras of this picture will turn many a spectator green with envy. They have been allowed a prolonged fondling of Betty Grable. Behind and around her moves a recreation of vintage-1905 sporting life with a noisy host of roisterers, pitchmen, barflies, and by-no-means-innocent bystanders. Miss Grable's tunes, dances, and virtually unprintable person will take full care of the general public. Film epicures will also be ravished by unoriginal but wonderful color-camera work on the gaudy, splendidly researched subject of oldtime Coney-Island...
There is much fine Technicolor and court pouf-pouf. But pretty Lucille Ball needs a voice; Cabaret Comedian Zero Mostel in his screen debut seems to need an intimate audience; Tommy Dorsey's band needs fewer powdered wigs and more good tunes to play. A characteristic flight of wit is a non-Porter song which runs: "No matter how you slice it, it's still Salome...