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Hearing that a man in Montana was bragging about the antiquity of his razor, a 146-year-old English blade, Dr. Allan Chester Johnson, Princeton Latinist, announced that he was trimming his beard with a stone razor he found in 1910 under the bathroom window of the palace of King Minos of Crete, where it was first used circa 2500 B.C. Said Dr. Johnson: "It has a marvelous edge...
...music is played and sung as it should be, and not whanged out on a piano in the orchestra pit. The old favorites are all presented in a very pleasing score, sung by some of the original cast and by the capable Irene Dunne, who is supported by Allan Jones. Jones has an adequate tenor voice, which does full justice to the songs he is called upon to sing. Helen Morgan's "Bill" is as appealing as ever, and Paul Robeson is given ample opportunity to show how a great song like "Old Man River" should be sung...
...indifferent, with the exception of the performance of Charles Winninger, of Maxwell House Coffee fame, as Captain Andy Hawks. The role is not a particularly masterful one, but Winninger makes a sympathetic wise, and humorously appealing figure out of the old Showboat captain. Irene Dunne as Magnolia, and Allan Jones as Ravenal, make a good team; Miss Dunne makes a not-too-successfull appearance in black-face, about which the less said the better: Miss Dunne is not a comedienne...
...nose of an owl, is Cap'n Andy's shrewish wife Parthy. Their daughter Magnolia, whose story is the sad old one of the girl married to a wastrel and abandoned, is Irene Dunne who, in black face and kinky wig, sings Gallivantin' Aroun'. Allan Jones, despite a good voice, makes Magnolia's Gaylord Ravenal into a handsome nonentity. Familiar to many a Show Boater will be Hattie McDaniel, an amiable and enormous Negro who helps Robeson with a rollicking song called Ah Still Suits...
...political Louis Poda's The Face That Haunts America turns out to be a portrait of Edgar Allan...