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...about the message by Franklin Roosevelt on the first page of the bulletin-"Holy smoke, Joe, can ya imagine that! President Roosevelt hisself writing me a personal letter of gratitude and appreciation. Hurry up and sign your X so you can be on the roll of honor too!" Funniest registrant was a happy-go-lucky darky who was stumped by the requirement to name a person who would always know his address. He . . . finally replied: "Well, ah's got a lady friend who travels with me who usually knows wheah ah's at." Most difficult registrant...
...about to go into rehearsal. At this point, Cole Porter's Panama Hattie was rocking Boston audiences with its lewd gale before sweeping on to Manhattan. Composer Porter's shows-Jubilee, Red, Hot and Blue, Du Barry Was a Lady-are notable for being often the funniest, often the most risque in the business. Very fast, very funny and energized by the leading popular songstress of the period, Panama Hattie is easily the ripest of the crop, may well become the musical hit of Broadway's winter if lighthearted depravity pays Mr. Porter anywhere near as well...
...writhe in righteous indignation. While Milland is escaping from a Spanish prison camp, drinking with Miss Colbert in Paris just prior to the outbreak of war, and making love in the forest of Compiegne during the signing of the armistice with Hitler, some of the season's funniest lines and most censorable situations are unreeled. Examples: Explaining to Colbert why she is just his type, Milland remarks that she reminds him of a stewardess on an airliner he used to pilot in the U. S. "We made a trip once," he explains, "and there weren't any passengers...
...miraculous Boxer (a dog) makes his debut with the familiar cast of Homer Evans, detective, dead-eye Miriam, Inspector Fremont and his dusky Hydrangea, Hjalmar Jansen the crockery smasher, the Singe, Godo the Whack, et al., roister-doistering from Paris to Rouen and back by water, land and haystack. Funniest murder story yet from veteran Mr. Paul, whose higher-browed books include The Life & Death of a Spanish Town...
...slogan is "Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye," turned this yen to good account. When he was winding up a recent engagement at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, Sammy Kaye had let the enthusiastic drunks go through the motions of leading his orchestra, awarded champagne to the best and funniest. Last week, on a tour of movie houses, Leader Kaye put on stick-waving contests which drew 75,000 people to Detroit's Fox Theatre...