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Sit up and clap again for Fred Astaire and Irving Berlin. Sit up and lookFred’s arrived with two new dancing partners. Sit up and
listen-Bing Crosby’s there with a handful of songs. So don’t miss Holiday Inn. Let me say at once that I haven’t got over my first love for the Fred AstaireGinger Rogers partnership, and I shall probably never get over it. But having paid tribute to the memory of Top Hat, Follow the Fleet, and Shall We Dance? -can you compete with them?-I’m
teady to give a hearty hand-clap to the new partnership of Astaire and Marjorie Reynolds (she sings, too), and a not-so-hearty clap to the new alliance with Virginia Dale. I don’t think I’m being unfair to the brunette to say that she doesn’t make a great deal of ‘her opportunities; it doesn’t seem such a calamitous loss when she walks out on Fred to marry a "millionaire Texan from Texas," and it does seem a pity that she’s made a mistake in the word-"he owed millions, not owned them’"-and so returns to dance with her knees bent again. But the blonde’ Miss Reynolds, with the canary voice, does fit the shoes; she seems as light as the desirable thistledown, she seems the right shape to wear the silver suitable to thistledown and she has a very nice way of moving -not permanently bent at the knees. It is Bing Crosby’s big idea to open a country house, call it Holiday Inn, and have parties there on the 15 days of the year marked in red on the calendarthe remaining 350 days to be devoted to glorious laziness on the profits. Bing tries to persuade his partners (Astaire and Dale), to throw up the show business and come with him on his year-round holiday. Nosir, not for them. But little Reynolds, flower-shop Cinderella, she’s been dying on her feet to get into the show business, so she jumps at the chance to get out. and starve to death at Holiday Inn. And just when everything is nice and _ successful, Astaire turns up to have a look around and stays on to steal a new partner for himsglf-the’ little Cinderella. And it’s interesting the way that works out.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 212, 16 July 1943, Page 13
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