Motion Picture Reviews (1941)

MOTION PICTURE REVIEWS Three MOTION • PICTURE » REVIEWS Published monthly by THE WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY CLUB LOS ANGELES BRANCH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN Mrs. Palmer Cook, Gen’l Co-Chairman Mrs. Laura O. Vruwink, Gen’l Co-Chairman Mrs. Chester A. Ommannet, Preview Chairman Mrs. Francis Pot as, Subscription Chairman Cooperating Branches Long Beach San Gabriel Valley Glendale Santa Monica Whittier EDITORS Mrs. Palmer Cook Mrs. J. Allen Davis Mrs. Georce Rtall Mrs. Laura O. Vruwink Address all communications to The Women’s University Club, 943 South Hoover Street, Los Angeles, California 10c Per Copy $1.00 Per Year Vol. XVI JANUARY, 1941 No. 1 Copyright 1941 by Women's University Club of Los Angeles FEATURE FILMS BEHIND THE NEWS O O Lloyd Nolan, Doris Davenport, Frank Albertson, Robert Armstrong, Paul Harvey, Charles Halton. Screen play by Isabel Dawn and Boyce DeGaw. Original story by Dory Schary and Allen Rivkin. Direction by Joseph Santley. Republic Pictures. This is another story of behind the scenes in a newspaper office but it presents the germ of a new idea. A cub reporter, winner of a six months’ scholarship, is initiated into the work by having the disillusioned staff harass him in every way. However, his idealism, his enthusiasm and his refusal to accept discouragement win the approval and respect of his associates and inspire in them the desire to keep faith with the public by helping worthwhile social crusades. Adolescents, 12 to 16 Little interest under 1 4 ❖ BLONDIE PLAYS CUPID Children, 8 to 12 Long and Little interest o o Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, "Daisy." Direction by Frank H. Strayer. Columbia. Blondie’s fear of the dangers associated with celebrating the Fourth of July puts a damper on Dag<wood's and Baby Dumplin’s jolly plans. But in seeking a safe and sound Fourth the little family encounters adventures which prove much more hazardous. This is hilarious entertainment for all. Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12 Excellent Excellent CHAD HANNA O O Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Linda Darnell, Guy Kibbee, John Carradine, Ted North, Roscoe Ates. The story of Red Wheels Rolling by Walter D. Edmonds. Screen play by Nunnally Johnson. Direction by Henry King. Twentieth Century-Fox. In the horse and buggy days there was a depth of feeling about simple things and an intensity of enjoyment that is seldom savored in the present time when inventions are so epoch-smashing that we no longer marvel at anything. What is there nowadays that can compare with the thrill a steam calliope gave to villagers a hundred years ago when the circus paraded through the main thoroughfare? Everything was fascinating, and everyone connected with it was intriguing, come though he might, and did, from the humblest ranks of the people. “Chad Hanna” revives those happy lost days. It is done in Technicolor, as any film which really presents a circus should be, and one is absorbed by the lives of the performers from beginning to end. A boy and a girl join the circus, Chad because he is under the spell of Albany Yates, the bareback rider, and Caroline to escape the beatings of her ugly father. Dorothy Lamour is not hampered by long riding habits, curls and crinolines in her role as a temptress, and she manages to flash a wicked garter, but Albany at heart is a good sort and refuses to wreck the lives of two people she