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...their daughter Margy (Jeanne Grain) go to the big State Fair. Farmer Frake's heart is set on winning the Grand Award with his titanic boar. Blue Boy. Mrs. Frake's hopes reside in her crock of heavily spiked mincemeat. Wayne meets and falls for a redhead (Vivian Blaine) who sings with Tommy Thomas' band, and Margy picks up with a Des Moines reporter (Dana Andrews...
Time passes happily enough in the gilt and plush saloon of silky-smooth, steel-fisted, honest Tony the Angel (George Raft). His devoted, carrot-topped singer Sally (Vivian Blaine) warbles her way through a series of top-notch new musical numbers, sweetened with the soft-shoe rhythms and barbershop harmonies of the period. But even such authentic musical backdrops as Moonlight Bay and Shine On, Harvest Moon, tinkled on pianolas or wheezed through the gaping morning-glory horns of pristine phonographs, are powerless to give conviction or pathos to the story of loyal Sally's heartbreak or Angel Raft...
Fair Exchange. In Milton, Mass., the Rev. Vivian Pomeroy proposed an addition to the marriage ceremony: as the bride's father gives away his daughter, let the groom's mother give away...
Last week, two nights after the cantata broadcast, Pianist Vivian Rivkin premiered Arnell's Twenty-two Variations on an Original Theme in Carnegie Hall. Composer Arnell admitted that it had been a successful week: "CBS paid for copying the cantata scores. I spent only $10 for postage and a recording of the cantata performance-and I got two seats to Carnegie Hall...
...Boys (20th Century Fox) turns out to have nothing very notable for anyone. Carmen Miranda replaces the stage version's Ethel Merman as the girl whose radioactive teeth help the soldier hero (Michael O'Shea) win a sham battle and a promotion; Mr. O'Shea and Vivian Elaine handle the love interest, and one of the Cole Porter songs, plus six fair-enough new non-Porter items. There are some pleasant essays in low-keyed Technicolor and sculptural cross-lighting in the dance numbers. Phil Silvers combines a daftly likable energy with some blurrily focused comedy...