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...salty mixture of American ham and Arabian unbelievable. "The Road to Morocco" is crazier and funnier than either of its two predecessors. It would have been the best comedy of the year but the directors and script writers worked too hard. They combined the dialogue and action so neatly the number of good goes are lost while the audience is howling at the slapstick...
When last week's script called for Joan to kiss Vallee, Rudy started to make the usual hand-to-lips sound effect, Joan yelled: "None of that! I've waited over a year for this." Resoundingly she smacked the blushing Vallee while the studio audience roared...
They took it lightly as they take their whole program-even its scripting, which Ace does himself. Unlike Fred Allen (who overmodestly says Goodman Ace is America's greatest wit), Goodman Ace burns no midnight oil, drips no sweat. He usually tosses off a script in an hour and a half. His cigars give him a convenient yardstick: a one-cigar script is apt to be terrific, a two-or three-cigar script fair, a four-cigar script a stinkaroo. Rehearsals are similarly carefree. A light once-over usually suffices. Anything more than that, Goodman Ace insists, kills...
...across the stage in the scenery and costumes of nineteenth century West Indies. Several imaginative mechanical devices, along with the panorama of color, attempt to liven up the pace. But color cannot move a stationary figure, nor brighten a static line. Bravura in production must have support in the script, and Mr. Behrman has let everyone down...
...into the broadcasting studio of WRNL. Half of Richmond is giving ear when the Doctor goes on the air at 8:30 with his morning news and homily. The station people are awed by his ability to spin out a steady, mellifluous 15-minute newscast without notes or script; they are awed still more by his occasional frank admission: "You can take it easy today-there's no news of any particular importance...