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Complications pile on when Jack become t neighbor Harvey Stephens and rascally young Douglas Croft descends upon them. It's a howl. (Dec.) )/ GIVE OUT, SISTERS — Universal: It's corny, it's funny, it's lively and abloom with music and singing. Grace McDonald flays a young heii gone jitterbug mad and Dan Daney Jr. is her bandleader beau. The Andrews Sisters introduce four in tid the Jivin' Jacks 'n' Jills dance new steps. ( Dec.) l/V GLASS KEY, THE— Paramount: Alan Ladd again as the pal of political boss Brian Donlevy, who finds himself suspected of murder. Veronica Lake strolls through with a monotonous performance, but William Bendix, Bonita Granville and Joseph Calleia give swell performances. (Dec.) HALFWAY TO SHANGHAI— Universal : Pas sengers aboard a train bound for Rangoon become involved in a murder mystery when a man escaping with plans of defenses in China is killed. American engineer Kent Taylor. Irene Hervey, Nazi sympathizer Charlotte Wynters, and George Zucco are among the passengers. (Dec.) V\/ HARD WAY, THE— Warners: Ida Lupino plays her role of a relentlessly selfish woman who promotes her younger sister, Joan Leslie, to perfection. Equally fine is the performance of Jack Carson as the lovable but dumbish vaudevillian who marries Joan and rescues them both from their miserable surroundings. Dennis Morgan, Leona Maricle and Gladys Cooper are also good. (Dec.) HELLO. ANNAPOLIS— Columbia: Jean Parker refuses to marry Tom Brown unless he enters Annapolis. When he attempts to trick her into marriage, Joan turns the tables and tricks him into Annapolis, where he gets the smart-aleckness taken out of him. (Dec.) 1/ HERE WE GO AGAIN— RKO Radio: A giggle test, with Fibber McGee and Molly celebrating twenty years of marriage at a hotel where Edgar Bergen, with Charley McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, is searching for a peculiar moth to aid the production of silk. You can imagine the goings-on. with the great Gildersleeve adding to the laughs and with Ginny Simms singing to Ray Nobel's music. (Nov.) HIGHWAYS BY NIGHT— RKO-Radio: Richard Carlson as the millionaire playboy who gets taken by gangsters and ends up in the trucking business does very well with loosely knit material. Jane Randolph is fair as the girl, but Jane Darwell, Barton MacLane and Ray Collins are good. Average. (Dec.) HI. NEIGHBOR— Republic: Radio personalities such as Vera Vague, Don Wilson, Lillian Randolph and others cavort around in this weak little homegrown number, with Janet Beecher as sponsor of a school that becomes a lonely heart retreat in the summer. Jean Parker and John Archer are the inevitable twosome. (Oct.) HILLBILLY BLITZKRIEG— Monogram: The famous cartoon characters, Snuffy Smith, played by Bud Duncan, and Barney Google, played by Cliff Nazarro, cut all sorts of capers that have the pair embroiled in a rocket invention. Edgar Kennedy as an Army sergeant and Lucien Littlefield as an inventor add to the rather silly maneuvers. (Nov.) 1/ HOLIDAY INN— Paramount: The blending of Fred Astaire's dancing and Bing Crosby's singing is all to the good and Irving Berlin's tunes make this a special treat. Bing leaves their act to run an inn open only on holidays. To the inn as a performer comes Marjorie Reynolds and Fred tries to steal her away. Virginia Dale is also involved. (Oct.) \/ ICELAND— 20th Century-Fox: Some of the best skating of her career is presented by Sonja Henie; but the story's only fair. It has Sonia, an Iceland maid, grabbing off John Payne, a Marine on the island, before he knows where he is. Osa Massen is Sonia's sister. Jack Oakie clowns on skates very funnily and Sammy Kaye and his orchestra provide some swell music. (Nov.) y INVIS1I V7"— Frank Lloyd-Universal: Jon Hall, who inherits the strut of invisibility, offers his services to his country, flies over Germany, becomes invisible ami gets embroiled in some very amusing and intriguing escapades. llona Massey i« the girl spy; Sir Cedric Hardwicke, relet Lone ami J. Edward Bromberg are the Axis agents You'll enjoy it. (Oct.) ISLE OF MISSING MEN— Monogram: A rather suspenseful little melodrama with John Howard as the governor of a penal colony. He befriends [Lien Gilbert who has conic to the island to help her husband, Gilbert Roland, escape and much exciting action transpires before she is successful. (Nov.) y IT HAPPENED IN FLATBUSH— 20th Century-Fox: An exciting baseball yarn, with Lloyd Nolan terrific as the manager of the club that once eviews ousted him as a player on trumped-up charges, i Holmes as the rookie befriended by Nolan shows great promise and Carole Landis as the object of young Holmes's heart is very beautiful. (Oct.) JACKASS MAIL— M-G-M : Wally Beery and Marjorie Main in their familiar story of a renegade who becomes regenerated through the orphaned son of the man Beery kills. It takes Darry! Hickman, the boy, and Marjorie Main, fearless owner of the transport mail line, to civilize Wally. (Nov.) \/ JOAN OF OZARK— Republic: Corn, but good, is this teaming of Judy Canova and Joe E. Brown, with all their ludicrous antics in store for you. Judy lands in Joe E.'s night club, where she's been brought from the Ozarks on a deal hatched bv Nazi spies. Jerome Cowan is the spy and Eddie Foy Jr. is swell. The airplane sequence is a howl and it's all a lot of fun. (Oct.) JUST OFF BROADWAY— 20th Century-Fox: \\ hen juror Michael Sliayne, played as usual by Lloyd Nolan, sees the evidence piling up against the innocent defendant, he sets out on his own to uncover the guilty party. Girl reporter Marjorie Weaver, press cameraman Phil Silvers, attorney Richard Derr and singer Joan Valerie are all in on the excitement. (Dec.) LADY IN A JAM — Universal: Irene Dunne is an heiress badly in need of a psychoanalyst. She lands in bankruptcy, heads West and becomes embroiled in a phony gold mine. Ralph Bellamy is a cowboy out-of-this-world and Patric Knowles the doctor, it's all pretty silly, so just laugh it off. (Oct.) LITTLE TO KIO, U. S. A. —20th Century-Fox: The West Coast's Japanese colony comes into the spotlight with this lively little epic of a police officer, Preston Foster, who suspects shenanigans in the Jap settlement. Comes Pearl Harbor, and he scoops up spies like fury. Brenda Joyce is his girl friend, and June Duprez, Harold Huber and George E. Stone are spies. (Nov.) \/ LOVES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, THE— 20th CenturyFox: Depth and beauty characterize this tale of the great poet's life — his adoption as a child, his first boyhood love affairs with Virginia Gilmore, his marriage to Linda Darnell and his slow disintegration due to alcoholism. John Shepperd seems an ideal Poe; Miss Gilmore and Miss Darnell give polished performances. i, Dec.) yy MAJOR AND THE MINOR. THE — Paramount: Don't miss this gay comedy, with Ginger Rogers posing as a twelve-year-old child and wreaking havoc with the boys at a military academy and with Major Ray Milland. Rita Johnson as Bay's suspicious fiancee, Diana Lynn. Rita's youngei sster alio knows the truth about Ginger but helps tier, and Robert Benchley add to the fun. (Oct.) MEXICAN SPITFIRE'S ELEPHA NT— RKORadio: Leon Errol again plays the dual role of Lord Epping and Uncle Matt, with Lupe Velez all over the place trying to help out Uncle Matt when smuggled jewels are hidden in an onyx elephant and the elephant must be returned pronto. Walter Reed is Lupe's husband, and Lyle Talbot and Marion Martin are the smugglers (Nov.) ^ MOON AND SIXPENCE, 7W£-David L. LoewAlbert Lewin, Inc. : George Sanders is the painter of Somerset Maugham's famous story, who leaves his wife and children to live the life of a starving artist, and Herbert Marshall the writer who narrates the story. Their performances, as well as those of Doris Dudley and Steve Geray, are most impressive. It's a strange and fascinating tale, but leads to no climactic crescendo. \/\/ MY SISTER EILEEN— Columbia: A howl from start to finish is this adaptation of the successful play about two sisters who come to New York to seek a career. Rosalind Russell is the older sister, Janet Blair her prettj sister E and George Tobias as their landlord. Brian Aherne the editor, and reporter Allyn Joslyn join the throng who wander in and out of their basement apartment. (Dec.) NIGHT FOR CRIME, /I— Producers Releasing Corp.: Murder mystery, with the victim a movie star, played by Lina Basquette. Glenda Farrell is the newspaper reporter and Lyle Talbot the studio press agent. Newspaper columnists Jimmy Starr. Edwin Schallert and Erskine Johnson play theraseives. (Oct.) <S*S NOW. VOYAGER— Warners: Another Bette masterpiece is this story of a frusl woman who finds release through the aid of psychiatrist Claude Rams. Paul Henreid. the man who brings her love that can never be realized in niaramong feminine fans. Gla.'. Ilka Cbasi tnd Bonita Granville are on to the very high standard of the story. y ONE THRILLING NIGH! at: A bedroom riot is this comedy with John Heal as the bridegroom who has twenty-four hours to honeymoon with bride Wanda McKay before his induction into the Army. But into their room parade gangsters, cops and robbers, dumb house detective and hoodlums. (Oct.) photoplay combined with movie mirror