WHERE THERE'S LIFE
(Paramount) In this latest farrago, Bob Hope is introduced to us as a disc-jockey (that’s American for a ZB announcer) on nightshift in a New York radio station. Though born on the wrong side of the Atlantic (and perilously close to the
wrong side of the blanket) he is also sole son and heir to the ruling monarch of a Ruritanian principality on the fringe of the iron curtain. As the story opens-but why worry about the story? | It’s not so funny as other Hope stories have been, though there are occasional glimpses of the old, maestro. The principal fault I had to find, however, was_ the teaming up with William Bendix. | Bendix is a good comedian and a good actor as well, and he has managed to get hold of the best lines. Where there’s life there’s hope, ‘perhaps, but A had the feeling that where there's Hope there should be Crosby.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 460, 16 April 1948, Page 21
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156WHERE THERE'S LIFE New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 460, 16 April 1948, Page 21
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