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...Hullabaloo" is a mildly amusing show with plenty of Frank Morgan, but the gal who steals the show is an incredible-looking harpy who sings "Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair" like it ain't never been sung before! The story is one of those back-mike jobs about auditions, and talent, and Orson Welles's Mars broadcast. A few tears are dropped on vaudeville's grave, but the general message is that entertainment will go marching on. "Hullabaloo" is not too strong marching, though...
...popular writing. Producer Nunnally Johnson's screen treatment glosses over the banality of the plot, becomes a simple, artful study of an ordinary, unimportant man. For Chad it has. lanky, loose-jointed Henry Fonda, one of the screen's few leading men able to say "ain't" without wincing. Grey, grumpy Director Henry King, who usually handles Fox's spectacles, resisted the temptation to let his camera linger on the Techni-colored accoutrements of the oldtime circus scene, formed his screenplay into a memorable portrait...
...tube shelters, waiting to go underground to hold the family "pitch" till nightfall. Inside they played on the long platforms of the subway stations, kept an eye open for the chance to steal a better sleeping space. Said one experienced moppet: "School? I got to get the seats ain't I? ... Ma goes home to do her work and sends me back to keep her place. Sometimes the women try to rush you. But they can't put it across me. I've got 'em beat...
...want to know how to explain that perfumed letter to your mother-in-law, you can learn from "Too Much Johnson." It's not Saroyan but it's got more laughs than folks like Mrs. George S. Kaufmann can whip into a play, and that ain...
...Buffalo Negro car washer sidled a stranger, asked him point-blank if he wanted $231. Said the Negro: "I'm on the legit, boss. I ain't looking for no racket." Nevertheless he was lured to the downtown office of the National Depository of America. The U. S., explained the Depository, has $30,000,000,000 in idle, i.e. "decirculated," currency. It also has 130,000,000 people. This works out to $231 for each of them. To get yours, all you have to do is pay $1 a month to the National Depository of America. For this...