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Tars and Spars (Columbia) introduces to the screen a likable blond zany named Sid Caesar. This otherwise routine little wartime musicomedy is about life & love in the U.S. Coast Guard-i.e., another late-arriving salute to the services, featuring singing Tar Alfred Drake, dancing Tar Marc Platt and Cinemactress Janet Blair, who is pretty and Spar-slim in a seagoing blouse and skirt. The upshot of the whole thing is predictable until Tar Sid Caesar, a product of Yonkers and the City of New York, lets loose with the most overwhelming spate of gobbledygook since the Johnstown Flood...
Another topflight airman, Arthur William Radford, would also be upped to vice admiral and would relieve Marc Andrew Mitscher as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air. "Pete" Mitscher, who had been squirming at his desk and itching for sea duty, would get his wish-as commander of the Eighth Fleet in the Atlantic probably with four-star rank...
...give voices to his furred and feathered folk, Impresario Disney signed up Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, the Andrews Sisters, Edgar Bergen. To supply the cartooned creatures with plots and dialogue, he has engaged such litterateurs as Novelist Huxley, Playwrights Marc Connelly and Edwin Justus Mayer, Author George Rippey Stewart, Author-Critic Sterling North and Folklorist Carl Carmer. Some Disney projects...
...Emperor and the Nightingale: for which Marc Connelly will do the scripting of Hans Christian Andersen...
...least one thing besides the theater their minds meet. Along with Marc Connelly, Arthur Kober and F.P.A., both are passionate regulars in that famed weekly gathering of cutthroat bonhomie that first achieved fame as the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club. This poker game, which Heywood Broun once asked to be kept going till 10 a.m., "so I can make my picket line," and which has been known to run for 33 hours,* is for Grouse "the most refreshing mental bath I can get." The club has a West Coast "branch," and "with luck and a plane," say Lindsay & Grouse...