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...rabbit, a seaman shaving in a hurricane, slapsticky Lou Costello is a successful clown. But most of it is South Sea stuffing, Hollywood style, with only two notable exceptions: a breakaway tune called Vingo Jingo (authors: Don Raye and Gene DePaul), and radio's vibrant-voiced Nan Wynn, now visible for the first time after her anonymous role as Rita Hayworth's singing voice in My Gal Sal (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 31, 1942 | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Laugh, Town, Laugh is a likable vaudeville, with Master of Ceremonies Ed Wynn providing the twists, and performers of all nations supplying the turns. Arrayed in his usual unusual costumes and equipped with a few new inventions, including a collection box that comments on the offerings, the Perfect Fool guides the show insanely from act to act. Wynn is not at his funniest in Laugh, Town, Laugh, but he is funny enough; and his embarrassed giggles help to redeem his most embarrassing gags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Banner Week | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

Twentieth Century has been considerably disturbed because Sal's big secret leaked out: Rita Hayworth's Grade-A singing voice belongs to Radio Songstress Nan Wynn. Fortunately for all concerned, the voice sounds like Rita. And no pseudonymous voice ever had a more attractive sponsor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 4, 1942 | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...reluctant dragon turns out to be a poetic green and yellow beast with the voice and mannerisms of Ed Wynn and a kangaroo shape. He is the Ferdinand of the dragons. The story of his reluctance to do battle with a toothy old English knight is not the most exciting Disney product. But nowadays the chief hazard to each new Disney show is the astronomically high standards of its predecessors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 2, 1941 | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...Comedian Wynn followed with 15 minutes of foolish talk. The damper audience began heckling him, got better and louder at it. Comedian Wynn got mad, made the wrong remark: "Some of you fellows think you are funnier than I am, so you tell the jokes and I'll do the laughing." He escaped the ultimate bird only by giving the audience what it wanted-Tap Dancer Betty Bruce, brunette Singer Jane Froman, acrobats, eight chorines from Comedian Wynn's Boys and Girls Together. After that, the audience laughed at Comedian Wynn's foolery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Girls & Action | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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