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P1PS0DMT gets your teeth BRIGHTER BY FAR! YES, BRIGHTER THAN THE AVERAGE OF ALL OTHER LEADING TOOTH PASTES COMBINED! Make this 1 -Minute Test , today! Run your tongue over your teeth. Feel that filmy coating? Now brush with filmremoving pepsodent for 1 minute. Repeat the tongue test. Notice how much cleaner your teeth feel? Your mirror will show you how much brighter they look! Only pepsodent with irium* has this film-removing formula. Remember: Brighter teeth are cleaner teeth —and less susceptible to decay! ♦Irium is Pepsodent’s Registered Trade-Mark for Purified Alkyl Sulfate. For that lepsodent Smile— Use Pepsodent every day —see yonr dentist twice a year. ' (A) Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Romulus — M-G-M) AVA GARDNER is so beautiful and sexy in this handsome and highly romantic Technicolor drama that the boys will go stark staring mad for her. Ava plays Pandora Reynolds, a restless, dangerous American girl, a femme fatale, who finally finds love and happiness in the legendary character of Hendrich Van der Zee (James Mason), a tormented gentleman who must sail the seven seas until he meets a woman who loves him enough to die for him. The fusing of this Seventeenth Century “Flying Dutchman ' legend into a Twentieth Century Spanish Riviera setting makes for exciting situations, much beauty and great romance. There’s a bull fight sequence that shows Mario Cabre, Spain’s idolized bullfighter, to excellent advantage. Your Reviewer Says: Unusual. Program Notes: This expensive and beautiful film was produced by old-time producer-director Albert Lewin who believes that audiences ■ want romance on their screens, not dreary reality. The picture was filmed last summer along the Spanish sea coast. The interiors were shot in London . . . Luscious Ava Gardner, excitingly gowned, gives her best performance to date. W hile on location Ava was visited by Frank Sinatra, which made international headlines, and was wooed by the romantic Mario Cabre who wrote love poems to her. “A romance with Mario — that’s ridiculous,” said Ava. “All Latins are gallant and romantic. 1 found Mario quite attractive, but I certainly wasn’t in love with him. Why, 1 had no time for romance during the making of ‘Pandora.’ I never worked so hard in my life, from five in the morning until dark, for five long months.” Ava gets real angry when she hears about the rumors that are being circulated about her. The rumor that she was having a baby in Europe made her seethe. “I’m sick and tired of the kind of publicity that turns people who might like me against me.” Says North Carolina’s prettiest tarheel, “I want people to like me.” V'v'V (F) Go for Broke (M-G-M) THIS is the highly entertaining and dramatic story of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the most decorated group in World War II. It was composed of American-born Japanese, all volunteers from Hawaii and the United States. “Go for broke,” is Hawaiian dice-shooting slang for “shoot the works.” Van Johnson plays a snooty young second lieutenant, fresh from O.C.S., who is extremely disappointed when he finds himself in charge of a platoon of Nisei. Van’s a strict disciplinarian and his boys, played by as fine and likable a bunch of actors as you’ve ever seen, are not much on discipline. But when the 36th Texas Division, outmanned, is being cut to ribbons in the European campaign, Van’s platoon of little brownskins yell, “Go for broke,” fight like demons, and against overwhelming odds rescue the 36th. This glorious chapter of American history makes wonderful movie entertainment. Your Reviewer Says: Better than “Battleground.” Program Notes: Composed of Americanborn Japanese, the 442nd amassed a recordbreaking total of personal and unit decorations and citations, including more than 6,000 Purple Hearts. In fact the 442nd was the most honored and decorated unit in World War II. Their “Go for Broke” flag was proudly decorated with the Presidential Unit Citation . . Many of the heroes (Continued on page 30) 1 28