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...outstanding 52nd Street characters appear in 52nd Street. Scottish Crooner Ella Logan went to Hollywood last year from Leon & Eddie's, a loud, vulgar hot-spot specializing in bawdy songs. Cadaverous, fast-cracking Jack White, rowdy Roscius of 52nd Street's 18 Club, is the film's most authentic touch, although it makes meagre use of his extraordinary repertory. At home in his hurly-burly 18 Club, Comic White welcomes visiting Babbitts with orchestral fanfares and vanishing birthday cakes, dons cop's garb to unsnarl traffic jams around the comfort stations, fishes for hecklers, whom...
...here that the picture falls down, because artifice doesn't become Irene Dunn. She is best at good, clean kidding, and only when she breaks through with her own personality does the picture reach a high level of entertainment. Too often it tends to be vulgar, with a clumsy, unamusing vulgarity. In the last sequence, which would never have taken place if Cary Grant hadn't kept opening the door of their adjoining bed-rooms, Miss Dunn looks decidedly uncomfortable, as though she were wishing the picture would hurry...
...laugh than to make it cry or to thrill it. About the cleanliness of humor. Ed was serious, and leaned forward intently as he stated his views. "There's no achievement in making an audience laugh with a dirty or risque joke, because that joke depends merely upon its vulgar inferences. The true comedian, in my humble opinion, is a man who can make a gathering of people laugh with clean jokes, even if old ones, securing his laugh merely by his method of projecting his cleverness over the footlight...
...Great American Rudeness," i.e., the custom that a hostess serves herself first-at which Mrs. Post hurls a five-page jeremiad, denouncing it as a vulgar survival from the poisoning Borgia...
Editor Woods philosophically decided that: 1) circus and press are comparable enterprises, except that the circus is "a lot saner"; 2) circus folks are not lowbrow, because he heard no vulgar remarks, little profanity in the tents, because they were eager to discuss such things as the labor situation, which they agreed was worse in Washington than in any other State in the union...