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...forge ahead, lost their bloom. Also second-best in the opinion of most listeners is the score Cole Porter has composed for his 12th musical show. Victim of his own previous high standards, Composer Porter will doubtless have the misfortune of hearing Red, Hot and Blue's comic number, "It's De-Love-ly," unfavorably compared with "A Picture Of Me Without You" which he wrote last year for Jubilee, and his current torch song, "Down in the Depths, On the 90th Floor," rated way below his "I Get a Kick Out of You" in Anything Goes...
...authors of Red, Hot and Blue may have slipped, but the performers manage to hold the altitude of their past achievements. As "Nails" Duquesne, a rough female diamond who thinks that a man with two wives is committing bigotry, Ethel Merman lifts a brazen voice, rolls a comic eye. Roly-poly Bob Hope (Roberta} is coyly engaging as the young-man-who-has-lost-the-girl-with-the-iron-burn. Jimmy Durante, sprung from the penitentiary against his will to speed the search, has never been funnier. He cross-examines himself, gets into a frightful wrangle with an interior...
...which Judge and Puck were already established. Single-minded Publisher Mitchell went ahead with his plans, engaged as literary editor a young man named Edward Sandford Martin. Six years out of Harvard, where he was a founder of the Lampoon, Martin had the definite idea that that college comic could be transmuted into a professional periodical...
...bridle trail in full-dress clothes, mounted upon a cart horse. Little does he know that the lady loved by his egregious father (Frank Morgan) is Ann's Aunt Eugenia (Billie Burke). When his pursuit of Ann costs him his job, he boils the pot with a comic strip inspired by those members of her family whom he has met through his father-the henpecked uncle (Grant Mitchell), the socially ambitious, bullying Mrs. Nesta Pett (Cora Wither spoon), the incorrigible, Eton-suited little nephew (Tommy Bupp). As the Richswitch family of the strip, they become the instantly recognized...
Martin, a new baritone singing When Did You Leave Heaven; Menjou in a hospital nightshirt. " Seven Sinners (Gaumont British) is a frank attempt to duplicate the success of, last year's outstandingly good Gaumont British comic-melodrama The Thirty-Nine Steps. A close imitation in urbane direction, restrained acting, swift pace, it has one important difference. Whereas The Thirty-Nine Steps was the tale of a hunted man, Seven Sinners is the story of a hunter...