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Some 8,000 parading schoolboys (and girls) who were being reviewed by shapely Carol Bruce in New Brunswick, N.J. got out of control in front of the stand, turned a patriotic rally into a juvenile riot of yelling and pushing. Result: bruised Miss Bruce went scooting out a back way and off to New York with a pair of torn stockings...
...Years of Our Lord (Harper; $2.50), a new novel about the life of Christ to add to the brief fiction shelf which includes Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (over 2,000,000 copies since 1880), George Moore's pale The Brook Kerith (1916), Bruce Barton's Rotarian The Man Nobody Knows (1925) and Sholem Asch's lush The Nazarene (1939). (Some would include Kenan's famed Vie de Jesus...
There's a movie which is almost worth sitting through. Its title, "Butch Minds the Baby," should man something. It concerns a gangster, Broderick Crawford, who is reformed by minding a baby, and a cop, Dick Foran, who is a bit too faithful to his part. Faning Virginia Bruce fades in and out occasionally. The picture is a little too long, its plot a trifle illogical, but its dialogue can't always get away from the fact that it was adapted from Damon Runyan, and is consequently good. If the omission of the "Harvard Blues" is considered an unpardonable...
Smart, Stephen Bruce...
When it comes to who's missing from the cast, the big gap is the absence of Carol Bruce, who put over a number of songs in the stage original. Paramount has dug up somebody named Donna Drake to fill in for her. Donna looks like Carol, all right, but that's all, and what were hit tunes on the stage are flops here. The other songs are effectively handled, although some of the best ones, especially "It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow," are either left out or merely used as background music...