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...advance reviews, this one looks like a must for Lana Turner fans only. These must number well in the millions, so MGM probably isn't worrying. In any case, if you expect something more than sexy shots in a movie, you'll be disappointed. The other feature, "Harrigan's Kid," is just what the title would lead you to expect...
...learned from Bunk. And Bunk, who could play any tune in any key without stopping to think ("sharps and flats they never bothered me"), was the greatest of them all. Bunk, they said, "had more in his haid." He had played ever since his mother had bought her kid a battered cornet. "She told me," he said later, "if I learn to play real good, she get me another, and I did learn to play real good...
...Play. The Museum directors had a still more ambitious idea. They decided to surround Bunk with colleagues from the New Orleans past. They found Papa Mutt Carey, famous "dirty" trumpeter, working as a Pullman porter on the Southern Pacific. They got Kid Ory, greatest of oldtime tailgate* trombonists, from Los Angeles, where he had been raising chickens. They tracked down Clarinetist Wade Whaley at the Moore shipyards on San Francisco Bay. Ringing doorbells in San Francisco's Negro section, they finally located Bertha Gonsoulin, onetime pianist for Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver. They added local Negro talent...
...Manhattan-born Georgie was singing in a movie theater with Walter Winchell; at eleven he was part of Gus Edwards' kid troupe; as an adolescent he teamed with Eddie Cantor, his lifelong friend and butt. A big laugh-getter in his early 20s, in his late 20s he proved an even bigger tear-jerker in The Jazz Singer. His biggest success since then came this season on Broadway in Show Time...
...Cause that's only a "friendship" ring she's wearing. . . . Of course you heard how "Iowa" Mark told Professor Masson that he thought the Finance final was "a very fair exam" . . . As a result of his efforts in recent reports, "Roadster" Golds borough is now known as "The Distinction Kid." . . . And you can call him "Professor" Zellers if you like, because Chuck just got an offer for a post-war instructorship at the University of Youngstown, his alma mamma. Big All-Star baseball game next Tuesday--Midshipmen vs. Supply Corps officers. Come one, come...