The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-17
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The swell new Disney cartoon on taxes is very Donald Ducky Harvard boys say they don't like Betty Grable, Veronica Lake or Ann Sheridan. Playing hard to get, huh?
 %. Wonder why there aren't many male ushers in legit thcaters? In mag piece G. J. Nathan lists the kind of entertainment most popular with soldiers and forgets the most popular of all-strip teasing ... Talk about bad timing one radio show plays Hawaiian melodies accompanied by an announcer who drools about the peace and and beauty of Hawaii Here's a good typewriter ribbon from Olin Miller: If this weren't such crazy world, it wouldn't be such an in- teresting one..'
 The theater season doesn't seem normal this year. There haven't been any critical arguments about the worth of a Saroyan play The dictators haven't got a chance to succeed-all the drama critics have given them bad reviews We would like to see one neWsreel without a shot about skiers-just one .. Considering all the stale quips they use, it's difficult to un- derStand why radio comics pay script writers. Haven't they got enough strength to wield pair of scissors? .. ... Garbo makes her living before a camera, yet she can't seem to stand news photogs. Ho-hum Florida without gambling is as un- happy as an actor who can't take bows.
 The theater would be much healthier if energy wasted com plaining about what's wrong would be used to try to make things right =. Female vocalists with some of those bands should be told the difference between singing and shouting .. Funny that most peo- pie get more fun reading about the happenings in joynts than the ones who frequent them This is hard to figure out: In 1885 "Porgy and Bess' was box office flop. Now as revival it's big financial click-although it received excellent reviews both times.
 HighbrOwS complain about the way swing music hurts the classics. But it's matter of record that, be- sause popular bands started to swing rschaikowsky, the sale of that com poSer'S records in the classic man. ner hit an all-time high We'd ike to see a celeb enter a joynt some time without acting as if he were playing the star role at a coronation Our idea of para disc is where everybody feels as good IS a headWaiter looks .. Whats become of Technocracy? The aitty, T Don't Want to Walk With out You, Baby is a friend of the ears when played in a slow tempo decorated with strings. When it tonnes dressed in brass it's an enemy
 Same people have a funny idea of originality. There was once a film called Public Enemy" Now there's one coming out titled Public Enemies" I suppose making "en- emy" plural makes the whole thing all right Why complain about the death of vaudeville, when most of those connected with it are now In radio making a great deal of money. And they don't have cold dressing rooms and digestion-ruin- .ng train hops from one town to the neS+ Most chorin2s dream about being stars, but the chorine-Rock- ettes at the Music Hall are the stars of the show You really have insomnia when even bore can't make you yaWn :. (Who, me?)
 Ben Bernie is doing his bit toward boosting the morale of the country. He isn't on the radio Good to know men in the service will be allowed to see ball games gratis. We hope the ball teams also broad cast their games and give the boys at the camps an added morale boost What some of those soap operas need is . :ittle humor, instead of concentrating on the trouble angle.