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...this time, you probably know the yarn of the circus bear who ran away and discovered a Law of the Wild that Jack London must have missed: bears make love with a slap. Bongo's understanding of bearish tactics grows through many rounds of grizzly fistienffs, and he finally learns that to court his love, he must make with a right to her muzzle. Add some good tunes to his slaps, and the result is tops. Clumping about in a Northwoods that would make a lumberman's mouth water, Bonge and the bears paw one another sufficiently to reach anybody...
Once Jiminy has quit selling, the invisible Miss Shore tells and sings quite a pleasant little yarn about one Bongo (original story by Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis). Bongo is a small circus bear who answers the call of the wild on his unicycle, finds that he is a bit soft and urban for life in the raw, falls for a sexy little taupe she-bear, and engages a gigantic rival in slapstick battle...
High Button Shoes (book by Stephen Longstreet; music & lyrics by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn; produced by Monte Proser and Joseph Kipness) isn't a specially good show, but it's pretty often a gay one. A period musical (1913), it spins an amiably undisciplined yarn about a con man and his stooge (Phil Silvers and Joey Faye) who sell waterlogged real estate in New Brunswick, N.J., flee to Atlantic City, sneak back for a Rutgers-Princeton game, at the end are earnestly seeking fresh frauds and pitches...
Kiss of Death. A hard, cold yarn about a burglar who turns stool pigeon, with Victor Mature, Richard Widmark and vivid real-life settings (TIME, Sept...
Kiss of Death. A hard, cold yarn about a burglar who turns stool pigeon, with Victor Mature, Richard Widmark, and vivid real-life settings (TIME, Sept...