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First with "Buck Privates," then with "In The Navy," Bud and Lou have coaxed bigger belly laughs from Mr. and Mrs. America than any other comedians in a decade. Now they're up to their zany antics in a new film, "Ride 'Em, Cowboy" — see scene above, and center below. Between scenes they horse around the Universal lot letting the slapstick swing where it may. Does it swing! Not even Deanna Durbin is sacred.
If you're howling at Abbott and Costello — csnd who isn't? — have another laugh with the boys right now, in the funniest interview ever given by these clowns in clover
Cowboy." Naturally, they're nuts to you . . . Bud and Lou, further identified as Abbott and Costello. But watch them closely and it will dawn on you, as it did on me, that there's something classical, something born of inspired humor, in this precious pair ; for here, my lords and ladies, are the Don Quixote and Sancho Pansa of the movies.
Waiting to talk with them, or get in a word edgeways, I had plenty of time to size them up. Bud struck me as clean-cut, Lou as if he had been cut out with a circular saw and hooped together by a journeyman cooper. They had come a long way without showing the slightest sign of wear-and-tear. On them burlesque had left no ribald mark nor vaudeville stamped them with routine. Out of Broadway shows and radio patter they had come into theii own — Hollywood. Just as they found themselves, so Universal had found them to be a doubleshift gold mine. Suddenly, sensationally, "Buck Privates," then "In The Navy," had made Abbott and Costello clowns in clover. (Please turn to page 68)
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