Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1945)

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She proves it by dropping her career when she finds out that Kilgannon's wife is insane, and going to California to find him. Their reunion doesn't last long. Mike Guinan gets to speculating again, and this time he lands in real trouble. Kilgannon takes the rap and Tex, who doesn't know it's her father who is actually guilty, leaves for New York. There she starts her famous night club. It's quite a place. The customers are insulted, overcharged, and laughed at, but they have a wonderful time and come back for more. Kilgannon turns up again, and if it hadn't been for a couple of gangsters, everything might have worked out all right. Texas Guinan, unfortunately, just wasn't destined for happiness. The picture is in Technicolor, it's exciting, Hutton is wonderful, and don't miss it.— Par. BACK TO BATAAN John Wayne switches from cowboy heroes to an Army colonel in his new picture, and wears his eagles with distinction. "Back To Bataan" has more excitement per reel than anything you've come across in some time and explodes the theory that war pictures are necessarily dated. It begins with the liberation of American prisoners in Luzon by Rangers and Filipino guerrillas. Then it flashes back to the dark days of Bataan and Corregidor. In those days there were no such things as organized Filipino guerrilla groups. Some Scouts, yes. A detachment of these under Captain Bonifacio (Anthony Quinn) is fighting by the side of American troops commanded by Colonel Madden (John Wayne). Bonifacio's sweetheart, Dalisay Delgado, former movie star, is broadcasting Jap propaganda over the radio. Her apparent betrayal of her countrymen has made Bonifacio so bitter that his judgment is warped. He takes unnecessary risks, with a fatalism resulting from his belief that the war is lost. When Bataan falls, Colonel Madden is put in charge of organizing guerrilla resistance in the Islands. It is a slow task, but as word spreads, more and more Filipinos rally to his side. Bonifacio at first does little to help. "What's the use?" he demands. "Where are the supplies and troops that America has promised for so long?" The question is unanswerable, but when he finds out that his sweetheart has been sending secret information to MacArthur through her radio broadcasts, he regains hope. "Incidents" occur throughout the Island with growing frequency. The theft of a few Jap trucks here, the bombing of a supply depot there. The Japs become alarmed. They decide to propitiate the Filipinos by granting them "independence." The announcement is to be made at an impressive public ceremony. It turns out to be quite a ceremony, for Maddens men attack in the middle of it. The picture ends with the return of the American Army to the Philippines, in a climax that really shoots the works! Agnes Moorehead, as a school teacher who tries to keep her pupils' minds on their books in the midst of battle, is very effective. So is a small boy named Ducky Louis, who plays one of the pupils. — RKO LADY ON A TRAIN There's nothing like a good mystery to take your mind off your troubles, and this is a good mystery. Deanna Durbin is the heroine who tries to solve a murder and almost gets bopped on the head for her pains. All the characters are fascinating people, mcluding the murderer, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins, David Bruce and Edward Everett Horton do their best to confuse you thoroughly. Suppose you were riding along in a train and saw a murder being committed in a room overlooking the railroad tracks. Would you forget the whole thing as hastily as possible, or go to the police? Nicki Collins (Deanna Durbin) goes to the police. They take one look at the lurid murder novel tucked under her arm, and tell her to run along and not bother them. So she goes to the mystery writer, Wayne Morgan (David Bruce), but he has a jealous fiancee. He doesn't dare get mixed up with anyone as attractive as Deanna. The next day the papers carry a story about Saul Waring, financier, who has died from a fall in the bathtub at his Long Island home. Nicki recognizes his picture — he is the man she saw being murdered, and it wasn't on Long Island. She goes out to his estate to do a spot of investigating, and finds his family assembled for the reading of the will. They mistake her for Margo Martin, a night club singer who was engaged to Saul. Since they have just, learned that he left his whole fortune to Margo, she isn't received with enthusiasm, but two brothers, Arnold (Dan Duryea) and Jonathan (Ralph Bellamy), are very nice to her. She locates a beautiful, shiny clue during her visit — a pair of blood stained slippers. She takes them back to New York with her, and from that moment she is in grave danger. She sees Wayne Morgan again, and this time he decides to dish his fiancee in favor of helping Nicki hunt the murderer. A sinister character named Saunders (George Coulouris) keeps popping in and out of the proceedings, until he pops once too often (Continued on page 24) _v I SAW IT HAPPEN <»■«■,. Last year, I was visiting a jriend at Sugar Hill, New Hampshire. It happened that her home was near thatt of a famous movie star. One day 1 decided to walk to the village, a jaunt of at least two miles. As I started down the road, a station wagon drove by. Much to my surprise, the car slowed up and stopped a short distance up the road. The driver, a charming woman, offered me a ride to the village. Of course, I accepted. No wonder, because it was Bette Davis! When I returned, it was easy for everyone to see that something very exciting had occurred. My breathless recital was greeted with, "Oh, that's nothing. She's always doing that!" Yes, that's right. Bette Davis is always doing something for someone. 1 can't imagine there being a kinder, more natural person in all of stardom. Esther Graham Brookline. Mass.