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Show Van, Esther Go Musical In Centre Hit "Easy to Wed," new technicolor techni-color musical, which opened today to-day on the Centre screen, is easy to look at, easy to listen to, and above all, easy to laugh al. With a star-studded cast, topped top-ped by Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball and Keen-an Keen-an Wynn, the new picture offers of-fers a world of entertainment in a howl-provoking tale of a lady-killer who sells his charm to the highest bidder only to find himself facing charges of bigamy. Against this is laid a colorful background of metropolitan ac- tion contrasted with scenes at a Mexican " resort, with Van Johnson and Miss -Williams do- ing their first singing and dancing danc-ing on the screen, and the lovely love-ly Esther again revealing her skill as a swimming and diving champ. The musical sequences Miss Bal 1 does a song-and-dance number, too are arrest-ingly arrest-ingly original and beautiful. Van Johnson will add to his huge host of fans In his new role as the debonair man-about-town who agrees to marry Lucille Lu-cille Ball in order that he can subsequently make love to Miss Williams and get her to drop a newspaper libel suit caused by her having been termed a "husband "hus-band stealer." The vivacious Lucille -is seen to advantage as the dancer Who is tossed willy-nilly willy-nilly between Van Johnson and Keenan Wynn, in utter disregard disre-gard of her own wishes, and aieunuojun asoti jajaodaaj wisecrack has been the source of the libel suit. |