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family on his hands. Lew Ayres, as complaining cousin Henry, is priceless and Lana Turner, it turns out, knows how to act as well as look button-cute. ALWAYS IN TROUBLE-20ih Century-Fox IT'S Jane Withers, of course, who is Always in Trouble, and this time she's in deep water with a family who gets rich overnight and can't take it. When ithey all become stranded on an island, inhabited by smugglers, Jane manages hot only to bring her family back to earth, but to foil the smugglers as well. Eddie Collins is funny. Robert Kellard and Jean Rogers are the romantic pair. MAN FROM MUSIC MOUNTAIN-Republic I IT'S Gene Autry to the rescue when ,, real-estate sharks take over a deserted ; ghost town, under pretense of obtaining a new electric power line. Carol .Hughes, who does little more than look I pretty, and Sally Payne, who is very funny, open a beauty shop in the town; J Smiley Burnette is amusing as Autry's singing aide. There are plenty of cowboy heroics and songs that will please western fans. FRESHMAN YEAR-Universal I HIS amusing little college picture has a most refreshing twist in that it does not have a football game, but rather deals with a group of students who institute a plan of "flunk" insurance and then have to put on a show in order to get enough money to pay off. Dixie Dunbar is the chorus girl co-ed, William Lundigan the freshman leader and Ernest Truex is good fun as the stodgy professor who suddenly goes jitterbug. SAFETY IN NUMBERS-20th Century-Fox I HE Jones Family again — in one of the fastest and most amusing of the series. In it, June Carlson wins a radio contest, Spring Byington herself goes on the air and swindlers move in on her. The whole Jones clan rallies to her support and strange and wonderful things happen until you're practically hysterical. The usual cast includes Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane and Russell Gleason. THE GLADIATOR-Columbia THIS time Joe E. Brown wins $1500 in a bank night, goes back to college and tries out for the team. The man he boards with, an eccentric professor, injects into Joe, as an experiment, a new chemical serum that gives superhuman strength. Then the fun starts. If you're one of Brown's fans you'll love this. June Travis and Man Mountain Dean help along the action — and the antics. SPAWN OF THE NORTH-Paramount UNE would suspect this of being an epic if occasionally it did not descend to the worst quickie depths. The story concerns Hank Fonda and George Raft, boyhood friends in an Alaskan fishing village. Hank's carrying on with his father's schooner, but Raft wants quick money and lets vicious Akim Tamiroff lead him astray. Dorothy Lamour is Raft's girl friend. She also likes Hank. Thus she is Torn Between Two Loyalties. Raft's trained seal, Slicker, is worth the price of admission. There is some beautiful photography and many exciting moments, but on the whole this is a muddled, cumbersome film. HOLD THAT CO-ED— 20th Century-Fox IF you're looking for an evening of good entertainment, you'll find it in this collegiate film. John Barrymore, in the role of Governor, refuses to give the run-down State U. much-needed funds. But, when he realizes he can aid his career by adopting a football team, he takes over the college. A musical comedy band, a female football kicker and a campus night club are enough to make any college prez tsh-tsh at such goings-on. Coach George Murphy and Marjorie Weaver provide romantic interest; Joan Davis and Jack Haley, comedy — it's still Barrymore's picture. Brief Reviews happens to the gangsters! Robert Livingston and Virginia Grey carry the romance in this roundelay of fun. (Sept.) LADY IN THE MORGUE, THE-Universal Despite the gruesome title, this is a breezy srmdlscale mystery with Preston Foster again proving himself a Sherlock Holmes by identifying the unknown murdererof an unknown woman. Patricia Ellis and Frank Jenks are two capable performers. (Aug.) * LETTER OF INTRODUCTION-Universal All the elements of a fine picture, comedy, drama and pathos are here, plus guess who? Charlie (such a sly cuss) McCarthy. Andrea Leeds is the aspiring ingenue who has a letter to an aging matinee idol, Adolphe Menjou. Before he can bring her promised stardom, tragedy stalks, but she has fallen in love with George Murphy before the climax. Swell. {Oct.) LITTLE MISS BROADWAY-20th Century-Fox Little Miss Temple skips happily between an orphanage run by Jane Darwell, and a boardinghouse for broken-down vaudevilliansrun by Edward Ellis, and keeps your interest in her delightful talents sparkling throughout her latest picture. George Murphy's dance routines are expert; Phyllis Brooks is the light love interest. Another bull'seye for Shirley. (Sept.) * LITTLE TOUGH GUY-Universal There's no indication that the "Dead End" brats have gone "rahfeened" in Hollywood. Back at their tough tricks, they focus all your attention on them in this heart-rending story of a middleclass family's impoverishment and subsequent decline to crime. Reform school again points a moral, but even if you know the story you must see these amazing youngsters do their stuff. (Sept.) * LORD JEFF-M-G-M An appealing story of young regeneration and the growth of friendship between two lads in a British marine training school, with Freddie Bartholomew and Mickey Rooney battling each other for acting honors the whole way. Take the family. (Aug.) * LOVE FINDS ANDY HARDY-M-G-M Andy is, of course, Mickey Rooney; this is his triumph. His true-to-life adolescent yearnings over Judy Garland, Lana Turner and Ann Rutherford will renew your youth. The rest of the Hardy family are intact, too: Father Lewis Stone, Mother Fay Holden, Daughter Cecilia Parker. Everybody go. (Oct.) * MARIE ANTOINETTE-M-G-M You don't need our advice about this magnificent effort to make you happily, if weepily, sentimental over the young Queen of France who lost her head in 1793. Norma Shearer is superb. Tyrone Power, as her lover, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut and too many to mention are simply elegant. Yellow orchids to this. (.Oct.) MEET THE GIRLS— 20th Century-Fox We are told that June Lang and Lynn Bari are going to romp through a series of pictures of which this is the first. Here, the gals, bent on adventure, become stowaways, get involved in a jewel robbery. (Boy, is that a plot?) Gene Lockhart, Ruth Donnelly and Erik Rhodes support. (Oct.) (Continued from page 6) MR. CHUMP-Warners Johnnie "Scat" Davis very ably carries the whole load of this little amusement about an unemployed trumpet player who has a system to beat the stock market. Alas, it works on paper, but not in dollars and cents. Lola Lane and Penny Singleton are the femmes. (Oct.) MR. MOTO'S LAST WARNING-20th CenturyFox A slightly dragging film, not the best of the Moto series. Peter Lorre this time prevents the destruction of Great Britain's fleet by Ricardo Cortez and his colleagues. Virginia Field grabs off the picture with her delineation of a crook's "moll." Just another movie. (Oil.) MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS-RKO-Radio A faithful rendition of an American classic. You may find it a bit too sentimental, this story of a poor widow (Fay Bainter) who takes in boarders, and the antics of her family (Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler, Jackie Moran and a delightful tot, Donnie Dunagan) when their livelihood is about to be taken from them. James Ellison is the girls' beau. (Oct.) MY BILL-Warners The big idea in this business of motherhood and sacrifice is that Kay Francis (of all people) is the doting mama of four kidlets ranging from adolescent, bratty Bonita Granville to little Dickie Moore. Dickie is O.K., saves the family fortune and the picture, too. (Sept.) MYSTERIOUS MR. MOTO— 20th Century-Fox Beginning with an escape from Devil's Island and concluding with an attempted assassination of steel king Henry Wilcoxon, this mystery is handled by suave Peter Lorre, Oriental detective, in top style. Mary Maguire is the love angle. If you like Moto films. (Aug.) ONE WILD NIGHT-20th Century-Fox This will bore you with its Grade B-ish antics. June Lang is the society reporter who solves the mystery of the disappearance of the town's leading citizens. Dick Baldwin, son of the police chief, helps in the fracas. J. Edward Bromberg is villainish. (Aug.) PASSPORT HUSBAND— 20th Century-Fox If you enjoy suspense well seasoned with slapstick, here you have it. Stuart Irwin plans his usual dopey-dope role as the husband of a Latin dancer, Joan Woodbury, who marries him to escape deportation. Gangsters step in to complicate the sit-yee-ashun. (Sept.) PROFESSOR BEWARE-Harold Lloyd-Paramount After all this time, Harold Lloyd brings forth another of his comedies, and, amazingly enough, its gags seem a little bewhiskered with age. He plays a professor of Egyptology, decides he's the reincarnation of Nefaris, gets mixed up with the police, has a light romance with pretty newcomer Phyllis Welch. You'll see it because it is Lloyd's. (Sept.) PRISON NURSE-Republic Another Big House story dealing with a convict doctor tHenry Wilcoxon) who wins a pardon for stemming an epidemic, only to become involved in a prison break and get popped back in the hoosegow. Marian Marsh and John Arledge are around. Pointless. (Aug.) PRIVATE LIFE OF MUSSOLINI, THE-Hullinger Prod. A highly interesting pictorial summary of the life of Mussolini. Whether you are for or against Fascism, you will like Edwin Ware Hullinger's unusual shots of the dictator at home with his family, at work and at play. Good current history. (Aug.) * RAGE OF PARIS, THE-Universal To introduce Danielle Darrieux, their new French star, Universal has chosen a gay modern comedy of mistaken identity. Doug Fairbanks, Jr. and Louis Hayward are the protagonists for Danielle's favor, and Helen Broderick the friend in need who sets out to get her protege a rich husband. Mile. Darrieux' charm surpasses the ballyhoo. See for yourself. (Aug.) ROMANCE OF THE LIMBERLOST-Monogr.am Sincerity and simplicity give charm to this Gene Stratton-Porter story of poor white trash of 1905. Jean Parker is lovely as the swamp girl whose aunt forces her into a brutal marriage. Eric Linden, Marjorie Main and Betty Blythe, the silent queen, do nicely. (Sept.) * SHOPWORN ANGEL, THE-M-G-M For the second time this year Margaret Sullavan and soldiers make a marvelous combination. Jimmy Stewart is the gangling, idealistic cowboy whom Maggie, a hard-shelled chorine, marries when he's sent overseas because she wishes his dream of her to remain unbroken. Walter Pidgeon is her jealous manager. Fine drama definitely worth seeing. (Sept.) SKY GIANT-RKO-Radio Capitalizing on the excitement incident to aviation headlines, this turns out to be an anemic runof-the-mill flying picture crammed with pseudothrills. Chester Morris and Richard Dix are the two pilots, of course, in love with the same dame, Joan Fontaine, who is certainly pretty. So-So. (Oct.) SMASHING THE RACKETS-RKO-Radio A thinly veiled character study of Prosecutor Dewey of New York (who said "no soap" when asked permission to use his name), this takes Chester Morris into gang-busting with the not too exceptional support of Bruce Cabot and Frances Mercer. P.S. The racket is smashed. (Oct.) * SOUTH RIDING-Korda-United Artists England expected every man to do his (acting) duty and lie certainly did! The story concerns the members of a county council and the reaction of their personal loves on their public acts during a political battle. 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