Evening star., 1948-09-03

!. Brooklyn and also boasts of lot
:: more sagebrush. 1t does nothing,
!. however, to disprove the suspicion
athat Morgan and Carson are supe-
3rior to their environment. They are
Cup to precisely the same tricks they
FUSED when operating in Brooklyn.
. These tricks include warbling a
afeW songs, donning series of out
.rageous disguises, making love to
sthe nearest available girl, and in
adulging in a. cavalcade of slapstick
.gags which might have come out
.of Mack Sennett's old filing cabinet.
: From ancient times, to be sure, it
.has never been the fashion of stroll
Sling minstrels to change their mate
:srial They based their faith upon
:their personalities, leaving it to per-
formers who lacked audiences to ex-
=: pertinent with new stuff.
Why should Carson and Morgan
change this formula? If you know,
teU Warmers.
X X 4
Az an excuse for the songs. the
firtstlonS and the gags, 1. A. L..
Diamond and Allen Boretz tossed
off sn absurd little thing of plot
which has the surprising quality
:of being inconsequential even for
musical
! II offers the heroes OF the picture
.sas a couple of bankrupt night club
spertormers. They run out OF gaso-
Zinc in TeXas-a fine, big State for
1hat sort of thing-and before they
9knoW it, they've got jobs at sWank
dude ranch which just happened to
DE convenient. The dude ranch.
shank Heaven, just happens to be
Operated by a beautiful young girl
Whose figure alone should keep the
plat- operating at profit level a
Few points above that of General
Motors.
:, Morgan is the quickly adaptable
type. especially to blondes and bru-
nettes, and he feels Immediately at
home in this environment.
: 1t is different with poor Carson.
He has a phobia about animals.
while it does not work out as COM
.ically as the producers seem to
assume, it does help pass the time
(which Two Guys from Texas" is
.gequired to run on the screen.
{ To repeat any more of the plot
of the Warner musical would be
sevcn more absurd than to have writ
Icn it in the first place.
: The best thing about it is that 1t
"Opens up, or disappears entirely, at
such times as a song from Morgan,
or Carson, or a duet by the pair, is
required. After all. Two Guys
from Texas" is Technicolor pic
ture and you can't have one Of those
without music to justify it.
The music is provided by julie
Stync, with lyrics by Sammy Kahn
Neither has contributed anything
here that will make their life stor-
les as musicians worth telling in
214o AID, but they at least have
provided a few tunes around which
Morgan wraps a pleasant baritone,
tThere is even tune about why
Texans are proud enough to die
for Texas, but this is a tactfully
comic song and Is sung by Carson.
Bcst of the several ballads, Just
on a guess, is number called
+'Hankerin' 1t Is introduced by a
apretty blonde named Penny Edwards
swho obviously spent part Of her
childhood being charmed by the
records of Ethel Waters There Is
no better way to have been charmed
as child, or adult.
X X X
+; Probably because it was made
tust before Hollywood decided to go
in heavily for retrenchmcnt, Two
.Guys from Texas" is far from a
skinny production. It's dude ranch
Is place where the rates would
p7ore to be at least $75 day, even
Nitnout Morgan and Carson to pro-
k;Ge the entertainment.
! 1t may be some time before you
Sc the like of this background
heain unless Warmers keep it around
hor the next two-guys-frohl picture.