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MOTION PICTUHE REVIEWS
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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. Ommanney, Preview Chairman Mrs. E. P. Fleming, Subscription Chairman Cooperating Branches
Long Beach San Gabriel Valley Rio Hondo Glendale Santa Monica Whittier
EDITORS
Mrs. Palmer Cook Mrs. J. Allen Davis Mrs. George Ryall 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 DECEMBER, 1941 No. 12
Copyright 1941 by Women's University Club of Los Angeles
FEATURE FILMS
BLUES IN THE NIGHT * O
Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Whorf, Jack Carson, Wally Ford, Elia Kazan, Peter Whitney. Direction by Anatole Litvak. Music by H. Roemheld. Warner Bros.
Good acting and skilled direction are wasted in this tawdry, melodramatic story of a handful of jazz musicians who tour the South in a freight car and finally appear at a road house called “The Jungle,” across the river from New York City. Recruited from jails and slums, they are a motley crew, devoid of better impulses with the exception of their pianist (Richard Whorf) and the singer (Priscilla Lane). Betty Field plays an utterly unsympathetic role, a siren whom men love to their destruction. The picture ends with a round of murder and sudden death. Photography is superior, but since it is carried out in dark, depressing tones, it tends to intensify the sordid atmosphere. For those who are fascinated by Boogie Woogie, blue music and swing, the film offers plenty of this type of music, and they may feel that the production is worth while. Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12
Poor Unwholesome
CONFIRM OR DENY O O
Don Ameche, Joan Bennett, Roddy McDowall, John Loder, Raymond Walburn, Arthur Shields, Eric Blore, Helene Reynolds, Claude Allister, Roseanne Murray. Based on a story by Henry Wales and Samuel Fuller. Screen play by Jo Swerling. Direction by Archie Mayo. 20th Century-Fox.
Packed with the noise of falling rubble, the drone of airplanes, bursting shells and moaning banshees, “Confirm or Deny” is a picture of London during the German invasion threat of September, 1940. There are interesting scenes of war raid shelters and of business establishments carrying on in the midst of wreckage. Some very terrible things happen and some of the most appealing people die, but through it all sails Don Ameche, as the European representative of a big U. S. news agency, with the aggressiveness of ten go-getters, and he also has time for a flourishing love affair with a very pretty teletype operator (Joan Bennett). Minor parts are well taken, notably by John Loder and Roddy McDowall ; the latter leaves a remembrance of imperishable boyhood. There is never a dull moment, but so much of the film is carried out in a rollicking manner that it is difficult to give full credence to the dangers and tragedy of the situation. Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12
Matter of taste No. Too emotional