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...better one by George & Ira Gershwin. There is Gracie Barrie to keep the good songs ringing clear, Buxom Mitzi Mayfair to strut the hot numbers, Paul Haakon to leap through the smooth ones. There is Bert Lahr, the most emphatic comedian on the revue stage, as a noisy Hollywood actor trying to chisel out of paying his income tax and as an over-manly baritone in a hickory shirt bellowing, "What do you chop when you chop a tree!" while occasionally getting an untimely handful of chips thrown in his face from the wings...
...Actor Gardiner last year conquered Broadway by imitating-with a few simple but compelling gestures, an appropriate word or sound and the expression of his amazingly mobile face-such improbable objects as a French train, a dirigible, ugly wall paper. To these sensitively communicated ideographs, Mimic Gardiner has now added a lighthouse (by revolving his body and then suddenly opening his eyes and mouth very wide and hissing slightly when he faces the audience) and a buoy (by crouching, wobbling drunkenly, looking seasick and giving off a bilious bell sound...
Chase & Sanborn dropped the program like a piping hot potato. In its place they hastily substituted "Do You Want to Be An Actor?", another mass appeal program, in which amateurs read skits...
Until some producer rounds up Hollywood's alarmingly large child actor population for an all-star effort, possibly on the lines of Grand Hotel in a day nursery, there is no chance for new discoveries in the well-explored terrain of plots for such performers. Central figures of both RKO's Rainbow on the River and Twentieth Century-Fox's Stowaway are, as usual, waifs doing as much good for themselves as possible and struggling hard to keep out of the orphanage...
...outdoor, glass-walled swimming pool, for which the water has to be cooled because it comes from natural hot springs, will paddle notables like Robert Pabst (beer), Julius Fleischmann (yeast), William S. Paley (Columbia Broadcasting), Ward Cheney (silk). Arrival of Hollywood bigwigs like Producer Sam Goldwyn and Actor Gary Cooper for Sun Valley's premiere, is likely to leave Ketchum profoundly bored. Because the town is too small for a cinema theatre, they are unknown. Proprietors of Ketchum's Brant Hotel and its $2-a-day tourist camp dislike their new rival, expect it to spoil their trade...