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...Favorite Wife is the latest offering of the husband & wife script-writing team of Bella & Samuel Spewack (Boy Meets Girl), the latest comedy collaboration of Gary Grant, Irene Dunne and Producer Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth). It is also the latest variation on Too Many Husbands, though this time it is the wife (Irene Dunne) who returns after she has been declared legally dead, finds that her husband has married again that morning...
...ahead, and as in the case of Gallahadion, it's long-odds Rochester that takes the show. But, if you don't bet on Benny and aren't Fred Allen you'll enjoy the show. As is usually the case, Jack Benny fuddles through a fantastic script to give a little entertainment, but also characteristic is the fact that Benny's supporting cast happen to be the sparks that put the whole thing over. Carmichael, his pet bear, is not an exception to this general rule...
Ballad For Americans (Victor). Two-disc album of the patriotic spine-tingler first heard on the Pursuit of Happiness radio program (TIME, Nov. 20). Discounting the influence of Poets Whitman, MacLeish, Anderson and Composer Kurt Weill (Knickerbocker Holiday) on the script and score of Messrs. Robinson and Latouche, even sophisticated listeners should get a kick out of this hopeful musical U. S. history. Paul Robeson, as the Voice Nobody Knows until the last stanza, sings bravely...
...CASE OF THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS-Anthony Boucher-Simon and Schuster ($2). Murder of a script writer who is about to mangle The Speckled Band for Producer F. X. Weinberg. Five of the Irregulars-professional men deep-steeped in Sherlock-Holmesiana - forgather in Hollywood as F. X.'s guests, to advise on the picture. Each has an extraordinary adventure, adapted from some case of Holmes's. The script writer turns out to be a bad man as well as a bad writer...
...welded a series of bizarre climaxes into a tremendously effective play. Philosophic and graphic elements were so intermingled as to provide the necessary portions of entertainment with a message so pungent. Incomprehensible as that message was at times, it only served as a challenge to dive deeper into the script...