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that counts as mucla as their | : cinema In these swojects would boost to the war, effort and to |
the morale shorty I've seen so far
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_ MOVIES ARE playing fan increasingly prominent part in “helping |
U. 8. citizens adjust to the: conditions of war time, I believe, in so far as adjusting to a new siluation means understanding it. “Produced Jointly by Hollywood and'the office of war information, the new vicSot HIB series ds begiafing 10 Toll, ‘at the: Tate of one new film. a Its. not only ‘the fact that the | are coming, 1t se2ms to me, |
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orchestra of which. Mr. McDonald
T. i orchestra will play Sibelius’ “Finlandia,” the lively “William Tell Overture,” by Rossini, three - Brahms - Hungarian dances (1, 2 and 7) and the “Largo” (Goin’ Home) movement of Dvorak’s “New World § symphony. Sounds good
merit ‘as films. ' Cert/ainly sloppy | be a detriment rgther than al
morale. ‘So it's a pleasure to report: that |
have beeri-knockouts. They have been made with imagination, vision and perspective. They are | excellent from both a technical | ‘and morale Viewpoint. I for one | have no doubt: of their effective- |
~ Joe Venutl brings his “fast fiddle and his band to the Indiana roof tonight, Friday, Saturday and nny.
NEIGHBORHOODS —
ness. This’ isa most welcome frend in| American cinema, after ‘months of /Hollywood’s war and | drammer tfash in. which celluloid | heroes bled and died on lots from Republic Metro for a couple of | thousand; bucks ‘a week and up. Menticning titles would be be- | side the point. Which is that the | kind of “inspiration” Hollywood | was selling the public a short time ago, with few exceptions, was an insult; to native intelligence. Now, in contrast to all that, we see the really: inspiring spectacle | ‘of the studios pitching in their talent, their time and their | dough to make some truly epochal |
-the swingy, foot stomping musical this week.
fine tunes, ‘many. of which you are still whistling’ today. They are “I've Got ‘a Gal in Kalamazoo,” “At Last,” “Serenade in Blue” and “People Like You and Me.” This . wife’s-eye view .of the boys who play the: nation’s love songs stars, besides Mr. Miller and his band, George Montgomery, Ann R:utherford, Lynn Bari; Carole Landis, Cesar Romero, Virginia = Gilmore, Mary Beth Hughes, the Nicholas Brothers and several others. It’s the story of Bill Abbott, > 2 trumpeter with : Miss Hughes Miller’s band, who falls, in love with one of his worshippers, a small-town swing fan Connie (Miss Rutherford). Married impulsively, Connie and Bill honeymoon on the run as the band is playing one-night stands. Aboard train, Connie meets the wives of the other men in the band and learns that their chief pastime 1s gossip. - When it links Bill with the band’s vocalist. Jaynie - (Miss Bari), a disagreement develops and one by -one the boys pull out of the band. The musicians head for New York looking for new jobs but through the perseverance of Connie, they are brought back together again. ; Youll see ' some sensational dancing by the Nicholas Brothers and your last glimpse of Mr. “Miller as a civilian. He’s in the
Notable among these is the | “This is America” se- | ries, the first of which is “Private | Smith, U. S. A” It shows how an average ‘ citizen becomes a
no heroics of ‘the breast beating | kind; just common, everyday heroics . folks don’t notice, good | earthly humor and naturalness |
They are fine, these short sub- | jects, a real break for the film audience as entertainment as well |
thing, I think. The motion picture “industry, too, is converting for ‘war. : ® 8 =
“FOLLOWING “The Best Foot Forward,” Patrick = Hamilton's corpsy mystery, “Angel Street,” opens at English’s tomorrow night to keep the curtain up over there for the second half of the week. It was one of the best chillers of the 1930's and has made an en-
type in New York, where it has
GLENN MILLER AN THE red-hot dance band he piloted to the No. 1 spot in the nation'is the big attraction in “Orchestra Wives,”
This jam: session which reveals the. loves: and trials ‘of the. women behind the men who make the nation’s musi, is loaded .with several
that bows in the neighborhoods:
duced: by the U.’S. government.
s ‘The film traces the history of
length teature—64 minutes of action which shows actual battle and air ‘rald scenes—was pro-
The Zaring will show the film through Saturday and ‘it will be at the Irving through Sunday. Nothing is faked, nothing is phony. Many of the scenes were filmed by axis cameras and all of them were filmed the: way they happened.
the world qver the past 1l:years and records the march of totalitarianism up to Dec. 7. It was written and produced by Samuel Spewack; former war correspondcent, playwright and scenarist, now producer for the office of war.
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"THE MID-WEEK SCHEDULE: BELMONT Throu, Saturday: ‘Men With Wings” and “fron 5 Over Burma.” | CINEMA—Through Saturday:. “Wings - for the Eagle” and “Pardon My Sarong.” DAISY--Through tomorrow: ‘This The for Keeps” and ¢‘Little Tokyo,
DRIV wd JIN—Through Saturday: of Sin” and ‘‘Virgins of Bali.” EMERSON—‘‘Crossroads” and “Wings for the Ea le.” Tomorrow: through Sat--urday: - ondie's Blessed Event” and “Flight Licatena ESQUIRE Through Saturday: ‘ Letter Darling” Horizon.” : FOUNTAIN SQUARE—Through Friday: “Joan ‘of the Ozarks” and ‘Hello, Annapolis.’” | GARFIELD—Through - tomorrow: “Affectionately Yours” and “Dark Command,” = |
“Wages
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«GRAN ADA—-“The Pied Piper” and. “A Haunting We. Will. Go.” = Tomorrow through Eo: “Somewhere I'll Find You” and "The World at War.” : HAMI TILT TON — ‘“Magnificennt sons”--and “Wings for the Eagle.” Tomorrow through Saturday: “Crossroads” and ‘Sweater Girl.”
VING—Through - Sunday:
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pha a 1 | service now. and his band—as it Patrick Hamilton is claimed to
almost did in; the picture — has disbanded... -It will be at the Rivoli, St. Clair and Strand through Saturday, the Irving through Sunday, the Fountain Square Saturday “through Tuesday and the Speedway Sunday through Tuesday. The Uptown will screen the film
Nov. 4-17. an unpleasant’ mystery about & 2 8 =
nut who murders his victim in the THE STUDIO press. book for
bathtub. ¢ Turn Part of: the play is based on a ib ER ger ay famous Glasgow murder case re- goes somite like this: “Their : p kisses made history in “Honky Tonk’ and history’s repeating itself.” ; That in a nutshell, is what you can expect
psychological drama. His plays Jnclude “Rope” in 1929, “The Procurator of Judea” in 1930 and “John Brown’s Body” in 1931, which immediately preceded “Angel Street.” He’s a novelist; too.
“The: Murderer’s ‘Companion. » ‘Seems that an. aged ‘spinster was murdered in her home in a prosperous section of the city-in 1908,
pounds worth of jewels socke away, only a’ diamond crescent brooch was missing. to find in the On the basis of circumstantial new film, billed evidence and the vague. descrip- as “the love tions furnished 'by a servant and match of the a neighbor, a ‘man named Oscar |:3 wy century.” HonSlater was convicted of the grime | Miss Turner. Ps the and sentenced to death. The case muggingcst picture you ever saw. attracted widespread - attention | Clark is in she role of Jonny when a number of crime authori- | Davis, crack war correspondent. ties, including the late Sir Arthur | Lana plays Paula Lane, a memConan Doyle, creator of Sherlock | per of the staff of the same paper Holmes, remained convinced of | that Jonny and his brother: Kirk the. oidemued man ks Innocents. (Robert Sterling) work for. lasgow - detective ‘by the When Paula is given an - name of Trench worked for years China, assignment, Elven SE trying to prove Slater not guilty | and Jonny and Kirk are sent to | and lost his job for his zeal. In | fing her. Kirk is inlove with letters: discovered on the murder | payla, but the feeling is not muscene, Trench found the initials, tual. “A. B Many believed the per- Jonny, who also cares for the son with those initials, was the | peautiful newspaperwoman, be-
killer. lieves his brother to be better
- Trench died in 1918, but his. : suited to-be a husband than he, faith in his deductions was vindi- | (0 takes off for Manila. It is
cated, for Slater was finally ac- | yon that war is declared and \quitted in 1928 after 20 years of Paula goes to Manila to find him, : ous nowever. "| The kissing classic may be seen_ : ; : at the Granada for a week: bex 8.0% 8 ginning “tomorrow and the Bel-. In “Angel Street, » Mr, Hamil mont, Strand, St. Clair and Up- : ton ‘takes dramatic license and | town 8 Siuiiay through Tuesday. ; 2 duces the owner -of the in- a8 8
ONE OF THE year's great films, begin a week-long engagementat the Granada tomorrow. This full |
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'‘SHERID. RIDAN—"‘Crossroads” and’ “Wings for the Eagle.” Tomorrow through Saturday:. “Escape : ‘From Hong Kong” and “My Favorite Spy.”
SPEEDWAY — — Through tomorrow: “Grand Central Murder Case’ and “Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring.”
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