Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schedule of the games will be issued to the several dormitory managers within the next few days. There will probably be two leagues in operation, and a playoff will decide the victor...
Louisiana Purchase (Victor Moore, Bob Hope, Vera Zorina, Dona Drake; (TIME...
...Crosby find of the season, Danish Comedian Victor Borge, produced some delayed-action gags at the piano. Bing got back in the big American groove with a smoky rendering of Blues in the Night ("From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blow, etc."). It was a pretty good hour and it worked up to "I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag" sung by Igor Gorin. Transcribed, the whole thing went over on KGEI's short wave next morning early. Most homelike part of the program for MacArthur's men were the Kraft commercials...
...substance, "Louisiana Purchase" is a not at all subtle satire on the reign of King Huey. Bob Hope is the innocent front man for the Long Machine and victor Moore the pathetic and dyspepsetic Senator who is investigating skullduggery. With this as a starting point, beautiful women, hit tunes and funny episodes are wound into the plot quite logically and smoothly. Most musicals regard plot and tunes as mutually exclusive, and are forever wedging in extrancous specialty numbers. But "Louisiana Purchase" has maudlin Victor Moore and Zorina sliding into "You're Lonely and I'm Lonely" with an unobtrusive kind...
Louisiana Purchase (Victor Moore, Bob Hope, Vera Zorina, Dona Drake; TIME...