Review of Whistling in Brooklyn

. . . strictly enforce the Apartheid-like iron-clad regulations of Southern bigot's James Crow animosity toward People of Color, the Many Greedy Mobsters producing WHISTLING IN BROOKLYN depict the hometown Dodger Nine without a single Ebony sprinkled among the 18 ivories playing on the ball diamond. Despite the widely-known presence of Jim Thorpe and scores of other Real Life whole-grain players in Major League ball parks for BOTH regular season games AND exhibition contests (such as the one depicted here between the Bums and a collegiate team from Oregon), Hollywood proved far more timid than M.L.B. in welcoming minorities amid its ranks. But when a studio's mascot is the Cowardly Lion, how can you expect anything from it beyond craven quaking quivering kow-towing and genuflecting at the knees of any bully who happens along?