Word: umbriago
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...Music for Millions" cannot be recommended without qualifications, it is simply because the plot lacks originality and the sprightliness of several in the cast is held down under sentimentality. Similar productions have been less entertaining; this one is saved by the sincerity of June Allyson and the whimsy of "Umbriago...
...jumped with three cameras and a canteen of Scotch and I pointed out to myself that the canteen was very important. The other guys jumped out yelling 'Umbriago!' which is what you yell now, but I was yelling 'one thousand' because if your parachute does not open you are to yell 'one thousand, two thousand, three thousand' before you pull the string. The moment between your jump and land is 24 hours in any man's life. I had time to figure out six or seven things before I hit-one thing...
...Umbriago. Last February Jimmy was left alone. His wife, to whom he was singularly devoted, died. His father had died in 1940; his mother, sister and two brothers were also dead. His only near relatives were two nephews, and they were in the armed forces...
...more from the nightclub) helped add up to his best fiscal year-about $250,000. He moved into his old suite at the Astor (No. 472) with Eddie Jackson, Jack Roth, for a quarter of a century his drummer, hat buyer, trainer, secretary, valet, friend-and Mr. Umbriago...
...Umbriago, whom Durante calls "that lifelong chum," is partly a creation of Jimmy's far-fetching imagination and partly a figment of Italian folklore. The folklore Umbriago is a friendly, lusty, happy little man who is always the life of the party, and Jimmy is sure he knows what he looks like (see cover). But in Jimmy's comedy, Umbriago may assume many shapes-clarinetist, bank president, farmer-according to whatever mischief Durante is up to. Umbriago is also at war. One U.S. Army paratroop division has abandoned the classic paratrooper cry Geronimo! in favor of Umbriago...
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