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...filler sketches center either on a torch song by Lahr's attractive co-star Delores Gray or some mild mass choreography by the troupe. Miss Gray has a pleasant torch voice, but songs like There never was a baby like my baby are pretty thin. The many dance sequences, mostly people in purple suits running to and fro about the stage to some quickly forgotten tune, are unimpressive. Unfortunately this filler drags Two on the Aisle down to the level of just mild entertainment...
...view of the road. ¶ The city of Frederick, Md. (pop. 18,000), whose place in literature was made secure by the legendary skirmish between Stonewall Jackson and Nonagenarian Barbara Fritchie, tidied up some leftover history. Two years after its encounter with Jackson, Frederick was threatened with the torch by Confederate General Jubal Early, bought him off by putting up $200,000 in ransom money which the town borrowed in haste from five local banks. Ever since, Frederick's taxpayers have been paying off the debt. Last week, with a final installment of $20,000, Mayor Donald Rice paid...
...mysterious find into the house of a neighbor, George Epperson, a Rock Island Railroad blacksmith. Epperson took it to the shop, but none of the other metalsmiths could tell him what it was. Under an emery wheel it sent off a shower of hot, brilliant sparks; an acetylene torch wouldn't melt it. On the Fourth of July, young Don and his friends found a use for their find: they took it out after dark and put on a fireworks display by knocking it with a hammer. "The only trouble was," said Don, "we burnt a lot of holes...
...friends in the Estelle Machine Shop. There he talked and drew diagrams. That night, the Estelle gang worked until 4 in the morning, cutting and welding a nine-foot, piece of six-inch oil-well casing into a North Pole. As a final touch, a welder took his torch and wrote on the steel: "North Pole by Stan." Next day, Stan and his friends lugged the 300-pound pole over to a sign company, got it enameled with gleaming red and white spirals. The ball was painted blue...
...poker game in which a man draws four aces, and a scene on board a boat in which a mad doctor is about to inject Mitchum with some memory-killing serum. It's got a murdered government agent and a torch song by the heroine. It's got all these ingredients and something more...