When "Sons 'o Fun" matriculates at the end of this week, Boston,--the finishing school for so many artists and shows aspiring to success in the battle for life on Broadway--will have turned out another graduate with an almost unanimous vote of Most Likely to Succeed in the Fall Class of '41. Olsen and Johnson and company have earned well their summa cum laude. Old father "Helzapoppin" has a worthy son to carry on his side-splitting traditions.
An enumeration of the laugh-provoking devices employed in "Sons 'o Fun" would be pointless; suffice it to say that they are all patterned after the successful, senseless, "all the theatre's the stage and every customer an actor" technique of "Helzapoppin." The only major deviation from the master plan in tone and substance is the addition of Carmen Miranda to the capitalized names of Olsen and Johnson. Perhaps this will be remedied to some extent if Carmen is given a little more time and another number or two like "Thanks North America"; but whether this is done or not, "Sons 'o Fun" has sufficient steam up for a long and happy voyage under the command of captains Olsen and Johnson.
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