Word: wynn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really more than one chance in 100 that he would be drafted.* Many a young man submitted good-naturedly to corner-store gibes at his certain fate. The jokes that were cracked were, more often than not, 1917 jokes, even such transmigratory Liberty Bond characters as Ed Wynn's "Weatherstrip" (so called because he kept his father out of the draft). The U. S. moved uncomplainingly on toward Registration...
Unfortunately, after the elements had been stirred and let simmer, the residuum didn't quite jell. Ernest Truex as the paterfamilias, Newton Fuller (who always wanted to live in the country) is well chosen, though his reiterated exhortation of "Just smell that air!" brings back memories of Ed Wynn's lisped plaint "I love the woods, I just love the woods." Jean Dixon as the wife is pleasant, but her change of heart just as the mortgage is going to be foreclosed--yes, there is a mortgage--seems slightly less than sincere. The various younger females, the daughter...
...girl together who are looking for a pleasant evening on this last weekend will find it by playing around with Ed Wynn's "Boys and Girls Together." Or, more particularly, with Ed Wynn himself, who is the show, the whole show, and a perfect fool in the process. On the radio he may be pretty bad, but on the boards he has the charm of Mickey Rooney, and ordinary people can only wonder how a man can stand, practically alone, on a stage for three hours, talking and waving his arms feebly, and never letting his audience down...
After all, there is no other fool such as he. Anyone else would be ashamed to admit responsibility for the inanities he concocts. Kid stuff through and through--pianos on bicycls, pretzel-shaped air rifles, and baggy pants. But funny withal, and all because Mr. Wynn thought of it and does...
There are parts that drag, but not too many, considering the fact that all musical revues are fated to bore some people some of the time. In these times of stress, too, Ed Wynn usually wanders on the stage of his friend, Mr. Shubert, and saves the act with an ice-cream oil slicker or his eyebrows. Eleanor Roosevelt is sure to like...