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You Were Never Lovelier: Lisa’s Home Bijou

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In You Were Never Lovelier (1942), Rita Hayworth plays a Buenos Aires princess in the style of “Taming of the Shrew.” Margarita Cansino was a dark-haired beauty who first was noticed as her father Eduardo’s ballroom dance partner. In her late teens she made a few movie appearances (Charlie Chan in Egypt). Then she dyed her hair red and became a star. We know Ms. Cansino better as Rita Hayworth, who helped bring a real Latin flavor to the movies.Rita Hayworth is a Latina tame-able shrew resisting Fred Astaire in Buenos Aires. Music and dancing with Xavier Cugat. Lisa's Home Bijou: You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

You Were Never Lovelier focuses on how the four Acuña sisters get to the altar with the men they love. The girls live a privileged and generally happy existence in Buenos Aires with their mother and strict father, Eduardo Acuña (Adolphe Menjou). Papa Acuña owns the nicest hotel in town and wants only the best for his daughters. He has laid down an inflexible rule for his hijas (daughters): the girls must marry in order of age, from eldest to youngest.

“It’s my invariable rule to distrust women’s taste in clothes. –That’s why he asked me to come by. …– Now you know as well as I do that women dress for one another and not for men. Delfina’s mom decked her out in fluff when I married her and she’s been decked out in fluff ever since. Does your son like fluff?” –Eduardo and María Castrolovelier-wedding-gowns

A beautiful wedding

Papa’s rule works fine with his eldest daughter. She falls in love with an acceptable groom whom she marries in a beautiful ceremony in the Acuña home. The bride wears white satin with a coronet to hold her veil. Her sisters, as bridesmaids, are a vision in chiffon and satin gowns with dropped waists and a bow at the bust, capped off by sweetheart picture hats. Each carries an armful of calla lilies. The two youngest sisters see these wedding festivities as the beginning of their chance at happiness. They both have nuptial candidates lined up, but in order for them to get married, the Number Two sister, María (Rita Hayworth) has to march down the aisle first.

“Oh but you have to be! Papa made it very clear that we can’t get married until after you do. –He says it’s our family tradition that the girls have to be disposed of, one, two, three, four. –And you’ll be the oldest now! –Oh Papa’ll get over that silly tradition. –No he won’t. Papa never gets over anything!” –Cecy, Lita, and María

A potential marriage candidate for María materializes at the wedding. Robert Davis (Fred Astaire) is an entertainer visiting from New York. He’s in Buenos Aires to indulge his love of gambling at the racetrack. Because he has run out of funds, he tries to line up a gig at Hotel Acuña. Xavier Cugat is the headline act there and “Cugie” promises Bob he’ll do all he can to bring him to Acuña’s attention. Cugat and his orchestra play at the wedding (don’t miss Lina Romay singing!) and bring Bob along to sing “Dearly Beloved.” Don Eduardo pays no attention to the song, then to further the injury, Bob meets María on the terrace and they take an immediate dislike to each other. Not realizing who she is, Bob gets in a conversation and strongly criticizes her father. No job for Bob.

“On second thought, I guess old “El Groucho” can wait. Don’t these overdone weddings bore you to death? They kill me. I always say, if two people want to get married, let ’em! They don’t have to go through a shindig like this. It’s murder!” –Bob

Fooling María

Don Eduardo would very much like for María to marry. He thinks that she has high romantic standards. He calls in María’s godmother for assistance in cooking up a plan. Acuña decides to play an imaginary secret admirer. He sends a note and flowers to her, but the gifts don’t excite her. A study of love letter reference books helps him attempt to write more passionate notes. María finally begins to respond to the daily missives and orchids. Her two sisters are ecstatic, thinking that their time may be at hand.

“María’s as old-fashioned as a hoop skirt. –Ridiculous, I know my own daughter. –You think you know your own daughter. –I know there’s something wrong with her. She hasn’t fallen in love since she was 15 when she got starry eyed about that silly man on a white horse. –Lochinvar? –Yes you’d think she would have outgrown a tin hero by know. She’s probably waiting around for a myth to come to life!” –María Castro and Eduardo

Back to Acuña’s office Bob goes to ask for a job again. Through a mixup, he gets sent to the Acuña mansion to deliver that day’s love message and flowers. Unbeknownst to him, he becomes María’s Lochinvar, the knight-in-shining-armor of her dreams. After his delivery duties, Bob goes back to the Hotel Acuña with Cugat’s band to force an audition. He does a spectacular conga-tap, which Don Eduardo despises. Still no job for Bob.lovelier-conga-tap

Will they or won’t they?

María visits Acuña’s office to give him the good news that she is in love with Bob. Papa has a hysterical fit! He calms down enough to call Bob in to make a deal – Bob can play the secret admirer long enough to convince María he is a bad bet.

Bob is the main course at that night’s family dinner. While Bob is trying to convince María of his bad qualities, she sings “I’m Old-Fashioned” and captivates him. She is amazing in a dress of black lace and illusion with a low waist, cap sleeves, and diamond clips at her hip bones (the designer Irene outdid herself on this one!).

“But you’re streamlined, you’re today. Sister, I was raised amongst the grasshoppers. I am strictly from corn!” –Bob

Bob and María dance together and magic is made. As far as Bob is concerned, all bets with Acuña are now off. He would gladly be María’s champion, despite Acuña’s low opinion of him.

Music

Johnny Mercer and Jerome Kern provide the lively music for You Were Never Lovelier Latin romance. Song and dance numbers in the film include:

  • Shorty George – Fred Astaire sings this as a tribute to Harlem. Rita Hayworth joins him in a spirited jitterbug-tap.lovelier-shorty-george
  • Ding Dong Dell – This song is a tribute to weddings.
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  • You Were Never Lovelier – Fred’s romantic wooing of Rita.lovelier-you-were-never

[Did you see when Charo was on Dancing with the Stars? She was married to Cugat and sang with the band.]

You Were Never Lovelier is a light, fanciful, romantic showcase for the Latin beauty and allure of Rita Hayworth. Almost every frame of film she appears in could be used as a GI pin-up. Fred Astaire doesn’t stand a chance of remaining aloof from her charms very long. It’s worth the time to watch the romance develop, their fabulous dancing together, and see how the couple escapes the schemes of her controlling Papa.Rita Hayworth is a Latina tame-able shrew resisting Fred Astaire in Buenos Aires. Music and dancing with Xavier Cugat. Lisa's Home Bijou: You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

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This is an update of a review that appeared originally in RETRO magazine, Nancy Eaton, editor.

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Lisa’s Home Bijou: Springtime in the Rockies

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Carmen Miranda’s vivaciousness and unique style are showcased in the 1942 film, Springtime in the Rockies. Portuguese by birth, Carmen Miranda emigrated to Brazil with her family as a youngster. As a teen she began working as a milliner and sang a bit on the radio. Although Carmen never grew past 5 feet tall, she became a Brazilian national treasure and an extremely popular bandleader and entertainer in the United States.Carmen Miranda brings the samba and her band to Lake Louise to assist Betty Grable's romance. Lisa's Home Bijou: Springtime in the Rockies (1942)

Springtime in the Rockies (1942) is a tale of two bickering lovers who are also Broadway stars. It’s the story of how they find happiness, along with all their friends, by the shores of Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies.

When we first see Dan Christy (John Payne) and Vicky Lane (Betty Grable) they are starring in “Stars in Your Eyes” on 42nd Street in New York. Dan is late for his duet with Vicky, who is worried. She talks things over with her friend Phoebe (Charlotte Greenwood).

“…He had a surprise for me. –Sounds like the old run-around. –Sounds more like an engagement ring to me. What else would a surprise be? –Well, I don’t know. Men have given me lots of surprises, they were never rings!”—Vicky and Phoebe

While they wait for Dan in the dressing room, Victor Prince (Cesar Romero) knocks at the door. Victor is Vicky’s old dancing partner and he wants her to join him again for a national tour. She nervously brushes him off because her heart belongs to Dan.

New York to Lake Louise, Banff, Canada

Dan finally arrives at the theater, so late that Vicky figures he must have been with another woman. He smells of expensive debutante perfume. After they sing and dance in a special-effects rainstorm on stage to “Run Little Raindrop, Run,” Dan tells her that he was late because he was buying a ring for her at Cartier’s. She cries tears of joy, but when he hands her a handkerchief, she sees that it is embroidered with the debutante’s initials. Victor’s offer of partnership suddenly looks much better to Vicky, so she takes him up on it.

Vicky and Victor do very well in their tour of nightclubs and hotel lounges. Meanwhile, Dan is jobless and spends his free time drinking. He meets a friendly bartender, MacTavish (Edward Everett Horton). While in the bar he finds out that the producers Bickell and Brown want to put up $60,000 for Dan’s new show, but the string attached is Vicky — they insist that she co-stars in the show. Dan’s agent, the Commissioner (Jackie Gleason), pays MacTavish to get the very drunk Dan on a plane to Lake Louise, where Vicky and Victor are enjoying a very successful gig at the Chateau.

An engagement and new employees

Dan wakes up in a hotel bed, very angry about the trumpet music that has awakened him. Outside, Harry James is entertaining the Chateau guests with “I Had the Craziest Dream” and “You Made Me Love You.” When MacTavish hands Dan a Bromo to relieve him, Dan can’t remember that he hired him as his a valet. MacTavish tells Dan a story:

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“You see, when my Aunt Stephanie died I was a freshman at Harvard and in her will she stipulated that I was to receive an allowance of $10,000 a year as long as I remained in college. … Yes, sir, yes, sir, I’ve been going to school now for 20 years. I graduated last month. –20 years at one college? –No sir, no sir, I have diplomas from five!” –MacTavish and Dan

Dan intends to bring Vicky an engagement ring he purchased in Chicago, but once at Lake Louise, he finds that Vicky and Victor are already engaged. He returns to his hotel room to discover that while drunk in Detroit, he had hired a secretary, Rosita Murphy (Carmen Miranda). Dan can’t handle the pressure of everything he did while drunk or of Vicky’s apparent disinterest. He wants to return all his new employees to their points of origin and go back to New York. But MacTavish and Rosita want to stay in Canada. They convince Dan that Vicky has become jealous of the relationship she assumes exists between Dan and Rosita, so he decides to stay in Canada as well.

“Well, here I am, ready to go to work. –Murphy, take a letter. –Good neighbors! Is that what a secretary wears in Brazil? –Why, you don’t like my outfits? I think it’s a knock down. –Well, what good is it if there’s not a Mardi Gras in town?” –Rosita and Dan

Song and dance numbers

Vicky now needs to decide between Victor and Dan and now MacTavish looks like a good catch to Phoebe and Rosita. Rosita and Victor dance extremely well together. Bickell and Brown and the Commissioner all want Vicky. The song and dance numbers help move all this convoluted story line along:

  • Rosita has brought her six brothers (Banda da Lua) with her from Detroit. She brings them along with her to take dictation from Dan. Rosita is dressed in a red and yellow midriff-baring outfit and a turban covered with fruit. She convinces Dan to watch her family’s act and they do a Brazilian version of “Chattanooga Choo Choo.”springtime-chattanooga
  • Vicky and Victor dance a passionate floorshow based on the tango accompanied by Harry James’ music. In this number, Vicky wears a black illusion halter dress covered with sequins and a deep ruffle flounce. The dress shows off her beautiful back to its best advantage.springtime-tango
  • Rosita prepares for a date with Dan by dressing in a white satin sarong outfit and a white turban adorned with tulle ruffles. She’s afraid it’s too plain and tells MacTavish, “It needs some beads, some flowers, fruits, bubbles, knacks, knicks.” She borrows $10 from him and doctors her dress up with scarves, fringe, conchas, and Indian beadwork. Once at the supper club, she and her brothers take the floor to sing about her heart, “Tic Tac Do Meu Coracao.”Carmen Miranda brings the samba and her band to Lake Louise to assist Betty Grable's romance. Lisa's Home Bijou: Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
  • Phoebe performs a “Strange Interlude” to the tune of “I had a dream last night” in an orange pleated gown. Charlotte Greenwood throws in her famous high kicks.springtime-high-kick
  • “Pan American Jubilee” brings all the gang together to dance a combination of jitterbug and samba. Vicky begins the number in a white satin sweetheart neckline dress with bead gardenias in her hair. She changes to a blue and silver glittery strapless dress with the skirt composed entirely of long fringe.

Glamorous happy ending

Betty Grable and Carmen Miranda look marvelous in Technicolor. Carmen is a real part of the action of Springtime in the Rockies, not just here for musical insert. Her patter-style of singing and her comedic talent are shown off very well.

Harry James and Betty Grable do not share much screen time, although in real life, they married and raised a family in Las Vegas. Charlotte Greenwood (see her in Oklahoma and Moon Over Miami) and Edward Everett Horton (see him in Top Hat, among others) lend their usual top-notch support to the film. Springtime in the Rockies is a fun-filled look at wartime show business, resort life, and the Latin pizazz of Carmen Miranda.

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This is an update of a review that appeared originally in RETRO magazine, Nancy Eaton, editor.

Lisa’s Home Bijou: Too Many Girls

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Too Many Girls (1940) stars DESI ARNAZ, who became a Mambo King in New York after emigrating from Cuba. He was mentored by Xavier Cugat, then toured the country with his own band, bringing the conga drum and ritmo latino to mainstream America. George Abbott, the Broadway producer, liked his style and invited him to appear in his Rodgers and Hart musical, Too Many Girls. Luckily for us, Desi repeated his performance when the play was adapted to film.Desi Arnaz is a congo-playing football star at a New Mexico college with Lucille Ball and Ann Miller. Rodgers and Hart music! Lisa's Home Bijou: Too Many Girls (1940)

Too Many Girls is a spirited look at college life at the end of the Depression. Football and dating are the major course of study for the students at Pottawatomie University in Stop Gap, New Mexico. Pottawatomie is a cow college with a student body ratio of 10 girls to every boy. Why would a group of All-American football stars attend this small school in the southwestern desert?

Clint Kelly (Richard Carlson), the Princeton quarterback, is working for the summer at the “Hunted Stag”, his family’s inn in Maine. His fellow waiter is Manuelito Lynch (Desi Arnaz). Manuelito has the reputation of being the greatest prep star to come along in 50 years. Clint wants him to play for Princeton, so he tries to hide Manuelito from the Ivy League scouts.too-many-maine-inn

“…You’re the greatest prep school flash in 50 years! But there’s no sense in being conceited. –I’m not conceited. I AM the greatest player in 50 years. But I’m not conceited!” – Clint and Manuelito

Mr. Casey and his lovely daughter

JoJo Jordan (Eddie Bracken), the Harvard quarterback, and Al Terwilliger (Hal LeRoy) discover Manuelito at the same time that Mr. Harvey Casey arrives at the inn. Casey is wealthy and owns Casey Allied Industries. In fact he’s so rich, he has $7.50 more than Henry Ford. Casey has a wild daughter who has just been deported from Switzerland. After meeting the four football players, he realizes that they might make the perfect bodyguards for his wayward daughter. Casey makes the boys an offer that they have trouble refusing.

“…She was driving a speedboat much too fast and cracked into a pontoon. Unfortunately, the President of Switzerland was on the pontoon, making a speech on safety.” –Mr. Harvey Casey

Consuelo Casey (Lucille Ball) arrives at the inn to meet with her dad about her college plans. He wants her to go to Vassar (ah, for the old days when you could go wherever you could afford!) Consuelo has decided instead to attend Pottawatomie, her dad’s alma mater. Consuelo is a stunning girl and once the four football stars hear her sing, “You’re nearer than my head is to my pillow,” they decide to give up their own college plans and go to Pottawatomie to watch over her. After asking the boys to sign an anti-romance clause, Mr. Casey, Pottawatomie Class of ’04, clinches the deal with a rendition of the school’s alma mater:too-many-connie

“We think of thee Pottawatomie, Pottawottamie of thee /Where the cactus on the campus blooms again /Where the lovely green flows mightier than the pen /Boys and girls together in thy bounty /Fairest school in all of Stop Gap County. . . /You made a lot of me, Pottawatomie /You hit the spot of me, Pottawatomie /I love Pottawatomie with all my ana-tomy /So each tiny tot of me that is begot of me /Will go to Pottawatomie!”

Pottawatomie!

The camera cuts away to all the Pottawatomie students singing in front of the locked school gates. Pepe (Ann Miller) and Eileen Eilers (Frances Langford) are out trying to raise $300 needed to pay the utility bills so that the school can open for fall semester. Just then, our All-Americans arrive and pay the bill with their bodyguard salaries. In the first of several enthusiastic production numbers in the campus plaza, Eileen leads the students singing,

“Come you all, kick up the cakewalk, ‘cuz we got cake! Lady Luck finally learned to bake!”

Meanwhile, Clint is shadowing Consuelo on the train to Stop Gap. He catches her writing a letter to Beverly Waverly, a playwright who is spending the winter at his ranch eight miles from campus. When the two finally arrive on campus, Consuelo gets whisked away to be interviewed as a potential pledge for the girls’ organization, Bar S. She is accepted and dons the special beanie that all the girls wear. Her bodyguards believe that a beanie’s presence indicates that a girl doesn’t neck, so they are determined to keep Consuelo from losing hers.too-many-girls-club

A big get-together at the President’s hacienda provides another excuse for a production number. Manuelito sings “All dressed up, speakin’ Spanish” and leads a mambo. Pepe joins in by tap dancing and liberally shows off her legs. During the celebration, JoJo enjoys a date with 10 girls.too-many-speakin-spanish

“I went with a senior at Wellesley. They’re all air-conditioned. –What do you mean, air-conditioned? –40 degrees cooler in the house than on the street.”—JoJo and co-edtoo-many-big-date

It’s all about the football

The boys are frustrated by their inability to help the school’s football team:

“You know, the 50-yard line is right on the Mexican border. Our team never seems to cross it. –They’re waiting for passports. The score is only 26 to nothing. –Texas Gentile has only scored once this quarter? –I wonder what’s holding them up? –Well, they’re a smart semi-pro outfit. I guess they figure it’s no use pouring it on.” –Clint and JoJotoo-many-scrimmage

With Consuelo’s help, the boys lose their football frustrations and love eventually blossoms for all the young people.

too-many-footballThe music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (of Pal Joey fame) fill every scene with music and inspire spirited dancing. We’re Heroes in the Fall is sung over the opening credits (keep a sharp lookout for Van Johnson in his first screen appearance), Frances Langford sings Love Never Went to College, and Lucille Ball introduces the standard I Didn’t Know What Time it Was (actually sung by Trudy Irwin).Desi Arnaz is a congo-playing football star at a New Mexico college with Lucille Ball and Ann Miller. Rodgers and Hart music! Lisa's Home Bijou: Too Many Girls (1940)

Desi Arnaz exhibits no restraint with his conga drum and Ann Miller matches his abandon with her tapping. Too Many Girls marks the film debut of Desi Arnaz, Van Johnson, and Eddie Bracken and was the place where Lucy and Desi met each other, soon forming one of the 20th century’s great partnerships. Sombreros, coeds, football, and mambo with Desi Arnaz as Latin lover and musician make for a silly but memorable musical comedy.

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This is an update of a review that appeared originally in RETRO magazine, Nancy Eaton, editor.

Lisa’s Home Bijou: Holiday in Mexico with Xavier Cugat

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Holiday in Mexico (1946) gives us insight into teenagers of the 1940s, the diplomatic corps, and into Mexico City’s nightlife. Christine Evans (Jane Powell) is a bobby-soxer, US Ambassador Jeffrey Evans (Walter Pidgeon) is a diplomat (and Christine’s father), and Xavier Cugat, playing himself, is our guide to the bright lights of the city.Xavier Cugat leads his Cuban band with his tiny chihuahua in his pocket. Jane Powell is spunky bobbysocker with a powerhouse voice. Lisa's Home Bijou: Holiday in Mexico (1946)

The 1930s and ’40s created a wave of interest in our neighbors to the south. The Pan American Union was housed in one of the most gorgeous buildings in Washington, DC; the US had an important naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba; and the Canal Zone was crucial for trade. The atmosphere was just right for Latin musicians to make an impact on our popular culture.

One of the most influential was Cuban bandleader Xavier Cugat. In Holiday in Mexico, he leads his band, he acts, and he carries his tiny pet chihuahua through an enjoyable musical postre (dessert).mexico-cugat

Christine is the only child of her widower father. She is adorable and is a talented soprano, but her life is not carefree. She has trouble balancing her normal teenager’s romantic life with her role as her dad’s social hostess. Stanley Owen (Roddy McDowell), the British ambassador’s son, would like to be Christine’s steady boo. Christine finally agrees once she realizes that Stanley can drive her around to do Embassy errands in his snazzy little green sports car.mexico-christine

“Well Christine I’d like it very much if you were quite definitely my girl. – Oh! You mean you like me more than anybody? –I believe I love you. …Will you? –What exactly does it involve? –Well, seeing me a lot, and being with me a lot, and playing tennis, and swimming, and well, being with me a lot. –Well then it’s impossible.” —Stanley and Christine

Casa Cugat

Christine wants to show her dad how grown-up she has become by managing a huge party at the US Embassy. Her first step is to visit the nightclub Casa Cugat to convince Xavier and his orchestra to play for the party. Xavier agrees, but warns her that she won’t be able to get his featured singer, the Hungarian soprano Toni Karpathy (Ilona Massey) because Miss Karpathy never sings at private parties. Christine takes the warning as a challenge and is very persistent with Miss Karpathy. Miss Karpathy finally agrees to sing at the party once she learns the identity of Christine’s father.mexico-toni

Christine’s next visit is to the home of José Iturbi, a concert pianist. His house is in chaos — a girls choir is rehearsing there, a St. Bernard is barking, his manager is confused, and his housekeeper is angry. In the confusion, Mr. Iturbi mistakes Christine for a soloist and she goes along with this ruse, singing an aria for an audition. Once she clears up the misunderstanding, he’s totally primed to accept her invitation to play a piece at the embassy party. By this time, Stanley thinks that Christine walks on the moon. Her father is completely impressed, especially when he finds out that Toni Karpathy is in town.mexico-iturbi

“Chris, I imagine you’ll be an ambassador yourself one day or maybe even President. Think of it, you’d be the first woman President! –Yes, yes. –Wouldn’t that be wonderful, Christine?” –Stanley and Christine

Music and misunderstandings

The Ambassador goes to Casa Cugat that evening. The joint is jumping — it’s the most popular club in Mexico City. The Cugat Orchestra is on stage with Xavier leading “Yo Te Amo Mucho” with his chihuahua tucked into his elbow (and his breast pocket!). The Ambassador makes his way backstage for a joyful reunion with Toni. They were young lovers years before when he was posted in Hungary. They reminisce about the old days, giving Toni a chance to show off her lovely voice.

“Don’t you see, darling, you have your own place in my heart, a place no one else can fill. I think you know that, don’t you? –Yes. But I’m not leaving ’cause of her, honestly I’m not. Well, I have to get away for awhile, that’s all. –Because you think you’ve outgrown things around here, huh? –Yes. …–I’ll tell you why you’re running away, because you’re embarrassed. …Remember this, darling, everyone, everyone, makes a fool of himself at one time or another, many times.” –Jeffrey and Christine

There are lots more musical numbers, more misunderstandings and mishaps, and lots more romance before this confection ends. At one point Christine thinks that José Iturbi is her true love and it takes seeing his grandchildren to snap her out of it. Jeffrey finds trouble when the teenaged French ambassador’s daughter thinks she is betrothed to him.

Holiday in Mexico is a fun excursion to a post-war world south-of-the-border. We recommend the trip.

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This is an update of a review that appeared originally in RETRO magazine, Nancy Eaton, editor.