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Show earmarking now practiced in Utah. "Iiolh the department of finance fi-nance and the tax study committee com-mittee have recommended that basic budgets be required of the departments now operating on earmarked revenues. Such budgets bud-gets would be subjected to biennial bi-ennial legislative review and budgetary control, similar to that which now applies to activities ac-tivities supported from the general gen-eral fund." " ' It"; ! - ,1 ' M 'Blue Skies' Now at Centre Three million dollars worth of musical entertainment, fashioned fash-ioned by America's master of melody, arrived at the Centre theater with Paramount's technicolor tech-nicolor production of Irving Berlin's Ber-lin's "Blue Skies," starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and Joan Caulfied. The melodic masterpiece master-piece features Billy De Wolfe and Olga San Juan, the bombshell bomb-shell from Puerto Rico, via Brooklyn. ' Blue Skies" is the biggest Berlin Ber-lin extravaganza ever, containing contain-ing more of the music of America's Amer-ica's foremost song writer than any other picture Hollywood has ever made. Berlin wrote four new songs, and composed new lyrics for an old time favorite, fa-vorite, to make a total of 32 hit tunes of the past and present which are heard in the movie. Against this melodic background, back-ground, a love story involving Bing, Fred and Joan is unfolded, beginning after the first world war and carrying through to a present-day finish. It tells of the romance and marriage of Crosby and Caulfield, their breakup over his inability to settle down, and the persistent, but fruitless, pursuit pur-suit of Joan by Astaire. Only after Fred has been crippled in FRED ASTAIRE, JOAN CAULFIELD AND BING CROSBY maki with the music, love and drama in th great new all-Berlin musical, "Blue Skies," curien tly playing at the Centre theater. a fall while dancing, and is telling tell-ing the story on the air in his role of a commentator, are the lovers re-united, and their skies blue forevermore. , All the principals double in brass, doing their specialties, and teaming up with each other in important production numbers. num-bers. Bing dances, Fred sings, and the lovely Miss Caulfield, heretofore acclaimed for her dramatic dra-matic ability alone, sings and dances. Even the comical Billy De Wolfe joins in the singing, and the peppery Latin from across the bridge from Manhattan, Manhat-tan, sings with Bing and dances with Fred in some of the film's biggest production numbers. With Bing singing no less than 16 songs and Fred offering what previewers have called the greatest great-est display of his talent ever seen on stage or screen, "Blue Skies" sounds like it will be one of the most memorable musicals in motion picture annals. |