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...such miscellaneous ingredients as plot and cast, the former is slight and the latter is slick. Full of such odd characters as a valet recruited from the Salvation Army who refers to himself as "we" and a typical Edward Everett Horton queer played by Edward Everett Horton, the picture supplies at least a token of filler between the main-event Rogers Astaire routines...
...about a traveling salesman who finds himself in a hotel room with an unknown woman's overnight case -which he unpacks, and loses himself in a wistful fantasy of romantic love. The Moon Watch is about a simple Moroccan Negro, who, when transplanted to Vienna as a valet by a well-meaning professor of Arabic, naturally assumes that his master is the magic that makes the city hum. Sixteen Thousand Francs is about a German who steals money off a dead French officer in World War I. Fifteen years later, hunted by Hitler and still haunted by his crime...
Live Subject. In London, a hotel guest complained of being asked to lie down to have his white tie tied. Reason: the valet used to be an undertaker...
Jack Kramer, one of Southern California's innumerable gifts to tennis, sipped his tea and said: "Say, this stuff isn't bad." He was impressed, too, by the de luxe valet service in the locker room and the assemblage of 129 stars from 22 nations. It was Wimbledon's first All-England championship jamboree since 1939, and the only cloud in Kramer's sky was a blister the size of a quarter on his playing hand...
Fred Allen (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Radio's reluctant comic entertains Jack Benny's valet, Rochester...