Modern Screen (Aug-Dec 1943)

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WHY M|LLI0NS 0F ^^FANS HAVE MADE HIM THE MOST POPULAR WESTERN STAR ON THE SCREEN! Among all the movie cowboys — none can ride like Roy... None can sing like Roy! He's the best of them all!... See him in his* newest — and greatest hit . . . see him in action— hear his melodies — get a movie thrill you'll long remember! SHEILA RYAN • BARTON MaclANE HARRY SHANNON • PAT BRADY ARLINE JUDGE and BOB NOLAN and THE SONS OF THE PIONEERS SONGS "M00""^' an(l Roses" ' "Rainbow Over the Ringe" Buy War Bonds and Stamps MOVIE REVIEWS (Continued from page 6) and she likes him immediately. Mrs. McLeod knows about tramps, she feeds and lodges them regularly. She is especially interested in this one, and when he's arrested for vagrancy, she tells the judge that he's working for her on the newspaper. She does it because that's the kind of thing she's always doing. It's part of being Vinnie McLeod. The reason tramps are tramps is usually quite simple. They like it. Richards likes being a tramp, and he doesn't like the idea of working in an office, even for a charming little lady like Mrs. McLeod. But he soon sees that Vinnie has gotten herself into a jam she can't get out of alone. Somebody's got to help her or the whole crazy crusade for truth and freedom will go under. Nobody else dares to, so it's up to a guy named Richards. The opposition forces, dominated by a burly Irishman named Dougherty (Edw. McNamara) , think they have things pretty well under control. The graft is rolling in with delightful regularity. People in town are too blind, or too easy going, to realize the situation. There is only Mrs. McLeod to worry about, and she is so far in debt that soon they will be able to take over her newspaper and foreclose the mortgage on her house. Dougherty's son, Pete (Bill Henry) is engaged to her niece Jane (Marjorie Lord), and he thinks that should be a softening influence on the old lady. But they hadn't counted on Richards. His arrival is like throwing a match in a box of fireworks. Things immediately begin to happen, and a lot of them are things that Dougherty doesn't like at all. There are shots in the night and a runaway horse and a jail break led by a fascinating character called Gashouse Mary (Marjorie Main) . Whatever happens, Richards is right in the middle of it. By now he is completely devoted to Mrs. McLeod, and, as he remarks, when things are going bad that's no time to quit. He and Vinnie see it through together. "Johnny Come Lately" is a story of 1906, but it could just as well be 1943. Cagney plays Richards with a sincerity that is dramatically effective, and Grace George is completely charming as Vinnie McLeod. These two are a combination that we'd like to see go on together — they are perfect contrasts in every way, and the result is excellent. Edward McNamara is good as the politician who can't understand Vinnie but admires her even when she defies him. — U. A. P. S. The title stems from an authentic hobo slang expression; means a greenhorn, a novice . . . Picture is the first independent major production of Cagney Productions, Inc., a new company headed by Bill Cagney as president. Jimmy is vice-president and top star . . . Jimmy takes a beating in this one. Even gets slapped by a woman (a switch on the Cagney theme) . During the fight in a careening buckboard, he got walloped across the back of the neck with a whip. Later on, he broke a small bone in his thumb when a policeman's club landed on his hand during a fight rehearsal . . . No more breakaway furniture is available (used to be made from vitally needed balsa wood), so studio carpenters had to hollow out legs of a chair Jimmy throws through a window. No sugar-candy glass is left, either — not even single thicknesses of plate glass. Jimmy had to toss the four-legged hunk of furniture right through the double-thicknesses of glass. Did it perfectly in four takes. STAGE DOOR CANTEEN You've heard a lot about New York's Stage Door Canteen, and what you've heard has probably made you wonder. The real canteen isn't open to anyone not in uniform, but here it is on the screen, and you'll love it. There are 48 stars in this picture, one for every state in the union. You've never had so much for your money in your life. Go ahead, name a star or two — I'll bet you a quarter they're in it. Katharine Hepburn? Sure. Harpo Marx? Complete with blonde. Gypsy Rose Lee? She's there, too. Something for everybody, and you're bound to have fun. The high spot for me was Ray Bolger's dancing. For you it may be Katharine Cornell playing Juliet to a young soldier's Romeo, or Kay Kyser's band. A story is woven through this Milky Way of stars. A love story, tender and heart warming, of a soldier called "Dakota" (William Terry) and the girl he finds at the Stage Door Canteen. Eileen (Cheryl Walker) is ambitious, and on the surface a little hard. She thinks the canteen will be a fine place to meet the right people — and she doesn't mean soldiers from Dakota. But her attitude soon begins to change. She gets a part in Paul Muni's new play, but somehow it doesn't seem half as important as the way "Dakota" looked at her last night. Cheryl Walker is a new discovery, and she's something to shout about. William Terry, Marjorie Riordan, Lon McCallister and Margaret Early give her excellent support. And don't forget — there are those 48 stars! — U.A. P. S. Feeling that "Stage Door Canteen" will be a historical document 100 years from now because of World War background and tremendous talent in the picture, the producer arranged to have pic placed in vacuum-sealed can and buried in official Washington and London vaults to be opened in 2043. Cast includes 40 greats of stage, screen and radio . . . $5,000 govt, ceiling on sets was brain-buster since pic had to be made in both New York and Hollywood. That meant all sets had to be made in duplicate. Since food was included in $5,000 budget, Canteen doughnuts were of plaster, sandwiches were blocks of wood, coffee was plain water tinted with lamp black coloring. Sets and props amounted to $3,000, phenomenally small for Hollywood. PRELUDE TO WAR When do you think this war began? That's easy, most of us would say — December 7, 1941. But we'd be wrong, according to the U. S. government's short feature, "Prelude To War." It actually began in September, 1931, when Japan invaded Manchuria. With the first shot fired by the Japs on the sleeping Chinese garrison across the border, the hounds of war were unleashed. To have a world peace, you must have a world that wants peace. There were at that time three separate groups in the world that wanted war. This picture shows their slow but sure rise to a power MODERN SCREEN