Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1945)

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Otherwise, tie a string snugly around your finger, knot securely, slip off without stretching. THE ALART COMPANY, 6? Summer St., Boston 10, Mass. ' Please send me (Nome of style } Oiamond Ring {Slate if set or individual ring.) I enclose $ Money Order. Send CO.D. (State which ) 'Name :„:, ■ -~ <: ■ . Street and No. CityorTown Write for new booklet "Lucky in Love" THE ALART COMPANY, 69 Summer St., Boston IO, Mass. Cynthia Glenn (Esther Williams) is demonstrating a swan dive for a group of small boys when a limousine stops by the Municipal pool, and an impressive looking young man gazes at her with obvious admiration. When she gets home, she finds three " dozen roses waiting. A copy of Fortune arrives shortly after with the page turned down at an article on that rising young tycoon, Robert G. Delbar. Then Robert G. (Carleton Young), who is the young man of the limousine, arrives in person. Being an executive type, he has not only succeeded in obtaining her address, but has mapped out an immediate campaign to win her. Or rather his secretary has — Robert G. is a busy guy. Cynthia receives his suit with more enthusiasm than her aunt and uncle do. They are vague, charming people, who dislike efficiency, system and all the other virtues of Robert G. But they mind their own business, and if Cynthia wants him, it's all right with them. So comes the wedding night. Comes the arrival at Arrowhead Inn for the honeymoon. But before Cynthia and Robert are even unpacked, he is summoned to Washington. Cynthia is left alone to listen to Tommy Dorsey's orchestra and the songs of a Metropolitan tenor named Knudsen (Lauritz Melchior). It isn't Knudsen who is the romantic threat, however. He, in fact, plays Cupid for the real menace — the war hero, Major Thomas Milvaine (Van Johnson). Not that Milvaine means to be a menace, but he falls in love with Cynthia before he knows what's hit him. They keep it all very platonic, and it's just unfortunate that they get lost in the woods on the night Robert G. returns to his bride. After all, as Robert says, "Major Milvaine found his way out of a jungle in Africa!" And you can't help thinking he's got something there. Your Van is devastating, as usual. And the cast includes, besides the above mentioned, Henry Travers and Spring Byington.— M-G-M. COLONEL BLIMP Colonel Blimp is to English cartoons what Dick Tracy is to American comic strips. He's a blustering old gentleman who believes wars are won on the playing fields of Eton. In this picture, however, he is metamorphosed into a romantic figure, and his name is changed to Clive Candy. Candy (Roger Livesey) is a Boer War hero, complete with Victoria Cross. Home on leave, he reads a letter from a mysterious Miss Hunter, telling about a man named Kaunitz who is circulating antiBritish propaganda in Berlin. Candy makes an unofficial — very unofficial — trip to Berlin. He meets Miss Hunter, who is so beautiful that he promptly falls in love with her. They encounter Kaunitz in a cafe, Candy knocks him down, and insults the entire German Army. Result: An elaborate duel, with sabers and scarlet coats and all the trimmings. His opponent, who was drawn by lot, is a German officer, Theo Kretschman-Shuldorff (Anton Walbrook) . The duel ends when they are both wounded. They meet again in the convalescent hospital over a friendly card game. Edith Hunter acts as interpreter, and during the weeks they are there, Theo, too, falls in love with her. Candy, with true British sportsmanship, steps aside and lets Theo marry her, while he returns to England alone. He and Theo remain friends, and correspond for several years. When World War I comes along, Candy is a brigadier-general. He has made a successful career of the Army, but he fights by Marquess of Queensbury rules. Romance enters the picture again when he meets a Red Cross nurse who reminds him of Edith Hunter, and marries her. Candy finds that Theo is a prisoner of war I SAW IT HAPPEN During one of the football games oj the Petersburg High School there seemed to be a great deal of excitement at one end of the field. As I followed the stream of curious spectators, 1 saw a tall man standing with a crowd of boys and girls clustered around him. At once, 1 recognized him as Petersburg's own Joseph Cotten. Laughing and talking, he answered the many questions that were asked him. But he really wanted to see the football game. With a huge gang of kids around him, it was impossible to see the players. Suddenly, he made a run for the steps and went up to the top of the hill that overlooks the ball field. The crowd didn't follow him, but they surely wanted to. Imagine how happy we all were, then, when Joseph Cotten came down after the game and talked to us like a regular fellow. He's a swell person! Betty Jane Steger Petersburg, Virginia in a British camp. But when Candy and his wife go to see him, Theo, with Prussian arrogance, refuses to speak to his old friend. He reconsiders later, however, and apologizes before he goes home to Germany. In World War II, Theo comes to England as an anti-Nazi refugee, but it takes Candy's influence to persuade the Alien Board that Theo is sincere. Their friendship is soon re-established. Candy shows Theo a picture of his wife, now dead, and Theo is struck by the resemblance between her and Edith. He later notes a similar resemblance in the pretty ATS chauffeur who drives Candy around. Candy is still a sportsman of the old school, fighting a kid glove war. But Theo and the pretty chauffeur's boy friend teach him that this war is not a "pukka sahib" affair. "Colonel Blimp" manages to be both leisurely and exciting. It is definitely worth seeing. — JJ.A. INCENDIARY BLONDE "Hello, suckers!" That's the way Texas Guinan used to greet the customers at her night club and they loved it. Tex was one of the most flamboyant and colorful figures of the Prohibition era. She had everything in the world she wanted, except the one thing she wanted most of all. That (at least in this Paramount version of her life) was a guy named Kilgannon. Betty Hutton, an incendiary blonde if ever there was one, plays Tex, and Kilgannon is played by Arturo De Cordova, who is an even more romantic figure here than he was in "Frenchman's Creek." Barry Fitzgerald as Mike Guinan, Tex's father, contributes one of his classic performances. Texas Guinan is quite a girl. She proves that way back in 1910. Mike Guinan has just lost his shirt trying to corner the potato market, and Tex decides it's up to her to take over. She rides a bucking broncho, wins fifty dollars, and gets a job with Cherokee Joe's Wild West Show. Only the show doesn't really belong to Cherokee (Charlie Ruggles) any more. He lost it in a poker game to a handsome gambler named Kilgannon. The new owner sees immediate possibilities in Texas, and between them they develop quite an act for her. Her personality wows the custom