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...case of Hot-cha! the setting is contemporary Mexico. The juvenile is Charles ("Buddy") Rogers of Olathe, Kan., who plays indifferently on several musical instruments and was until lately his country's cinematic Boy Friend. The ing�nue is a tall blond named June Knight. Bert Lahr, whose large following is convulsed by his funny faces and mispronunciations, is the comedian and Lynne Overman (Dancing Partners) is more or less his foil. The siren is a dark mite with a great big smile, Cinemactress Lupe Velez. Her shapely shoulders are burdened with that part of the show which Mr. Lahr...
...Bert Haines, Freshman crew coach, took the first trip at 2.30 o'clock, setting a course up the river beyond the Cambridge Hospital, where the ice became so thick that further progress was impossible. Haines hopes to have the floats put down by the early part of next week, and expects to get the shells in the water as soon as possible thereafter...
...numerous than any British airman has since received. It was deepened last year by publication in Liberty of a collection of testimonials by other famed airmen to Kingsford-Smith's prowess. Fortnight ago the foremost British aeronautical editor gave his definition of the foremost British flyer: Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler?like Kingsford-Smith, an Australian. The editor: iconoclastic Charles Grey Grey of The Aeroplane...
Even the English press failed to get excited about the first solo crossing of the South Atlantic. The reason, as seen by Editor Grey: "Bert Hinkler has a rooted prejudice against telling anybody that he is going to do anything before he does it. And that is not the way to become famous. . . . If you go and do a thing without telling the newspapers all about it beforehand, then, just out of spite, you get about four lines to say that it's been done...
Flying High (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows Bert Lahr performing the role he made famous when the show was a Manhattan musicomedy. He is a bedazzled aviator who spends a night in a bathtub, then breaks the altitude record because he lacks sense enough to come down. Two of Flying High's best songs ("Thank Your Father," "Wasn't It Beautiful While It Lasted") have been whistled so much that they had to be left out, but in other respects the cinema improves the play...