“I DOOD IT”

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 199, 20 May 1944, Page 8

“I DOOD IT”

This week the Majestic In keeping with the general trend. Is screening one Of these combination shows, which, in addition to its many good pointe, falls into the class that boasts a plot. And It most assuredly boasts a couple of very popular stars and an equally popular dance band. The title of this musical cocktail Is “I Dood It"— and the stars? Well, the title alone gives the clue of the male of the piece, who, of course, is none other than that cheeky scallywag. Red Skelton, whose “I dood it” is just about as well-known as Mae West’s “Come up and see me sometime.” Feminine attraction comes in the person of that amazing tap dancer, Eleanor Powell, and the dance band is In the hands of the ever-popular Jimmy Dorsey. What more could one want?

Mixed up with a host of dances, very tuneful musical items. Hazel Scott at the piano, Lena Horns singing. Bob Eberly causing susceptible hearts to flutter when he sings, and a cowboy rope dance by Eleanor Powell that is one of the topranking spots in the show, is if etory ot a pants presser, who at night, in a suit of borrowed "tails.” plays the stage-door johnnle. This, of course, is the impish Red, xvho marries the actress Eleanor, and who finds the romantic path anything but smoothly paved, and who gets mixed up with saboteurs. Ot course, he frustrates the nasty men, thereby collecting quite a tidy reward to start himself off in married life. And so ends as merry a musical mix-up as the screen has sported for quite a long time. “I Dood It” is real, happy entertainment ot the ordered-after-a-heavy-day-at-the-office-var-iety. More serious is the March of Time in the first half. It’s a very good one, too.