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Send free Sampler Package in plain wrapper by return mail — Glover's Mange Medicine, GLO-VER Beauty Shampoo, Glover's Imperial Hair Dress in 3 hermetically-sealed bottles — with free booklet. 1 enclose 10 1 to cover cost of packaging and postage. (please print plainly) Cify A uniformly competent cast includes Anne Crawford as the girl Ian should have married, and Jill Esmond as his efficient nurse. While less exciting than “Laura,” also authored by Vera Caspary, “Bedelia” is enjoyable enough. Your Reviewer Says: British brain-teaser. Sioux City Sue (Republic) Ilf ELL, what do you know! Hollywood 11 finally discovers Gene Autry — anyway, it says so here. Seems Gene is just a cattle rancher with no aspirations to movie fame. Then along comes talent scout Lvnne Roberts and song writer Sterling Holloway on the trail of a singing cowboy for an animated cartoon of a donkey. They don’t tell Gene he’s to play second fiddle to a jackass and when he does find out, he’s plenty sore. Lynne goes to a lot of trouble to square herself but it takes a bit of doing. Whether in the saddle, rounding up a stampeding herd, or yodeling his sweet songs, Autry is a right cool customer. It’s something to see him stop a pair of runaway horses that drag Lynne over miles of rough roads. You watch, horror stricken, dead certain that every bone in her body must be broken. But this amazing female leaps to her feet, blithely brushes off the dirt, and remarks: “That’s getting a mud pack the hard way!” Ralph Sanford plays an ornery cowhand, out to fix Gene; Richard Lane is the frantic movie man, and the Cass County Boys make with the music. Your Reviewer Says: Autry heeds Hollywood’s call. v' Lady in the Lake (M-G-M) 4 DETECTIVE’S life is no bed of roses — A at least Robert Montgomery’s isn’t in this murder-in-the-modern-manner film. It’s a blunt and brutal business but it has its lighter side in the person of Audrey Totter, a blonde with brains and personality plus. Out to win her millionaire boss, Leon Ames, she’s willing enough to take Bob as some sort of consolation prize if he will only have her. In crisp, now-it-can-be-told fashion. Bob gives the lowdown on how and why Audrey hires him to establish the whereabouts of Ames’s missing wife. Bob, who doubles as director and star here, continuously makes use of camera close-ups which, after awhile, become too much of a good thing. For instance, when he’s kissing Audrey, you don’t see him doing it; there’s just her upturned face on which a shadow — presumably Bob’s — falls, with the rest left to the imagination. The plot takes so many devious twists and turns that, although in the end you find out who bumped off whom, the motivation isn’t too clear. Both killers and captors are a cynical lot, given to shooting off their mouths as well as their guns. A couple of the unfortunate victims of this excessive violence are off-screen characters, including the “lady in the lake” herself Your Reviewer Says: For the mystery minded. That Brennan Girl (Republic) 4 GIRL who sins but repents before it’s rl too late; a boy who senses that she’s the product of the wrong environment; and an older man who takes up where the other leaves off: These are the ingredients of an inept little picture, starring James Dunn and Mona Freeman. Mona’s mother (June Duprez) is a woman of questionable morals, and anything but a good influence on her young daughter Although William Marshall comes along to lead Mona on the right path, he isn’t around long enough; so that task falls upon the capable shoulders of James Dunn, a sentimental racketeer. Dunn is too old as a suitor for the youthful Mona whose role in “Black Beauty” was more her style. She’s the sweet, simple type — far too fresh looking for the slick chick she’s made out to be here. William Marshall appears all too briefly in the sympathetic part of a good guy in love with a playgirl who needs a guiding hand, unprepared as she is for the responsibilities of marriage and motherhood. Dorothy Vaughan is quite all right as Dunn’s doting mother who keeps stuffing him with corned beef and cabbage, meanwhile praying for his soul. Your Reviewer Says: We all make mistakes. . . . Affairs of Geraldine (Republic) IOVE may make the world go ’round, but it doesn’t do a thing for this featherweight fable about a small-town gal who can fix up everyone’s romance but her own. Half a dozen years ago, Jane Withers was a bouncing, boisterous tomboy; she’s still playing that selfsame role today except that she’s at an age where she can be expected to have a boy friend or two. Jane’s brothers, Grant Withers and William Haade, seem to think so and take steps to marry her off. If there’s going to be a bridegroom, Jane wants to do her own choosing. Where would be a better place to find him than in a matrimonial club, especially if it’s run by enterprising Raymond Walburn? That’s what well-meaning Donald Meek suggests when Jane confides her troubles to him. He agrees with her that J. Edmund Roberts, one of the club’s clients, appears to be a likely candidate. Well, you get the idea. . . . And, oh yes, there’s James Lydon, the boy back home who looks as if he should be shooting marbles instead of proposing marriage, but who really loves Jane in a big way. Your Reviewer Says: Cupid takes a beating. Plainsman and the Lady (Republic) BIG Bill Elliott is the plainsman, and blonde Vera Ralston (minus her ice skates) is the lady whose banker-father is interested in starting the first Pony Express between California and Missouri in 1859. Such an enterprise would be a threat to his mail business so scheming Joseph Schildkraut, with the help of double-dealing Gail Patrick, resolves to stop it at any cost. It doesn’t take a Sherlock Holmes to figure out what’s coming in this little opus, which falls into the accepted pattern with one difference: There are real Injuns, by golly — a rarity these days! Main trouble is there’s too much talk about the Pony Express and too few scenes showing it in operation. More or less involved in all the skulduggery are Andy Clyde and Raymond Walburn. Your Reviewer Says: A Pony Local. The Wicked Lady ( Universal-International ) BEAUTY and badness are fast becoming synonymous on the screen, the latest example being this 17th Century English