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...bowling enthusiasts have taken over the Harvard "Bowladrome" for weekly sessions from now on. Last week's games saw the Lucky Strikers. Portsmouth Prospects (irony), and 600 Club mark up victories. Neil Plantefabec ('with a reach half-way to the pins," quote Thad Webb) scored a neat 488 while Jim Rafferty, Ruddy Moeller, and Dick Oster made the games interesting instead (stakes being too low for them...
...Webb Smith "Posting as a peon down on the border just for laughs...
...sarong, three shipwrecked seamen (Eddie Bracken, Gil Lamb, Barry Sullivan), and assorted natives. It involves: 1) an aquacade sequence-a ritual of "purification" for Miss Lamour; 2) a comedy act involving Eddie Bracken and a very hungry man-eating flower; 3) some amusingly parodistic Oriental music by Roy Webb and a catchy song, The Boogie, Woogie, Boogie Man; 4) enough general ribbing of sarong and tomtom pictures to make a thin but fairly likable piece of musical ridiculousness...
...Clifton Webb excels in the role of Mr. Laedecker, a gentleman who combines the virtues of Walter Winchell, Alexander Woolcott, and Tommy Manville. Miss Tierney turns in a good performance, mainly because her part calls for very few lines and many closeups. Vincent Price and Judith Anderson add to the general atmosphere and manage to get involved in the proceedings...
Laura (Gene Tierney) is an ambitious beginner in the advertising business when she dares to beard the exquisite columnist-commentator Waldo Lydecker (Webb) in his noontime lair at the Algonquin. Though her nerve earns her some carbolic insults from the great man, it makes her in almost no time his protegee. As such, she soon becomes a high-powered executive and gives a job to polo-playing Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price), under the very nose of his only visible means of support, Park Avenue's well-heeled Ann Treadwell (Judith Anderson). Both Ann and Waldo are patently annoyed...