This show is another of the transpositions from the great radio show: Jack Benny's New Year's Eve adventure. The scene opens with the cast of the show becoming convivial, preparing for their party, and of Jack making a grand entrance in top hat and tails. He has a great date! Dennis Day gives us a wonderful song, and things are off to a great New Year's Eve. But then poor Jack gets some bad news . . . I expect it took great courage to put this show on; at least, back in the radio days. Benny as a tragic figure? In my opinion, here is where he moves into his place as the supreme clown: Pagliachi himself. Not immensely funny, but intensely moving; reminiscent of another great American comedian, Jimmy Durante, covering popular music standards late in his life.
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