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Show Lamour, Hope, Crosby Star In Mario Comedy Three of screenland's most seasoned travellers cap their zany adventures with an hilarious hilari-ous trek up the "Road to Utopia," Uto-pia," Paramount's latest "Road" film now showing at the Mario theater. Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour have hit the millennium in laughs in this slap-happy gag-a-minute show which takes the tireless trio into the gold-studded Yukon. The object of their misadventures misadven-tures is a rich mine buried in the snowcapped Alaskan hills. ' It's Dotty's inheritance, but two of the Yukon's shootin'est thugs are out to swipe it, so Bob and Bing assure Lamour they'll beat them to the punch. The trip is made just a bit more difficult when the two boys mistake the ship's porthole for a safe and throw their boat fare to the shark's fins. With their last dollar dol-lar floating away, Bob and Bing have to start working their way northward- Reports indicate that this and other such situa-1 tions make the script provided by Norman Panama and jMelvin j Frank a gold mine of laughs- . While climatic conditions make it necessary for Dotty to trade her jungle sarong for a fur-lined parka, she nevertheless has ample am-ple opportunity to display the famed Lamour form in some slinky Edith pead creations. On one such occasion she gives forth with a little ditty titled: "Personality," lyrics by Johnny Burke and music by James Van Heusen. Bob and Bing also sing a tuneful array of melodies! written by the popular song- writing team. Under the direction of Hal Walker, "Road to Utopia" moves along at a riotous pace a real laugh treat for old and young j alike- I |
