Screenland (Nov 1944-Oct 1945)

A perfect figure-score every time! That's because BLUE SWAN UNDIES flatter your form with ttteir perfect fit, their shaped-to-your-shadow styles. Hard to find ... but worth treasure-hunting for! BLUE SWAN MILLS, INC. EMPIRE STATE BLDG., NEW YORK 1 MILLS: SAYRE, PA. Your Guide to Current Films CAPTAIN EDDIE— 20f/) Century-fox Release The life of one of our greatest heroes, Eddie Rickenbacker, always hobnobbing with danger, is here told with the accent on the man himself. So, instead of just another action thriller, Eureka Pictures has made this film a superb human document. The story stems from the thoughts of Capt. Eddie when he was lost at sea — as a boy (an excellent performance by Darryl Hickman) who used a baby buggy and timbrella contraption in his first attempt at flying; as a young man who falls in love with a young lady over an ice cream soda and wins her in spite of his devotion to that new invention — the automobile. To Fred MacMurray and Lynn Bari, acting laurels are in order for these roles, and to Lloyd Bacon, a deep bow for his delicate direction of poignant, dramatic scenes which will live iti your memory. THAT'S THE SPmi— Universal Put this one on your list. We can't think of a more pleasant evening's entertainment than being haunted by that versatile trouper. Jack Oakie, playing the ghost of a song and dance magician and flute tooter of the 1890"s. He comes back to earth to give a helping hand to his daughter, Peggy Ryan, when her mid-Victorian family object to her stage career. It's funny, fast, and fantastic, but coherent and always in good taste with Peggy doing her usual best in the music and choreography department, teamed with a fast-stepping youngster you'll like — Johnny Coy. Watch him! June Vincent, Buster Keaton. Irene Ryan are stand-outs. 't. BACK TO BATAAN— R/CO P'iction takes up where facts leave off in this film about Filipino guerrillas and American Rangers from the fall of Bataan to the raid on Cabantuan Prison Camp, with suspense, excitement and plent}' of action — as Hollywood sees such warfare. John Wayne gives his typical hard-fisted performance as the amazingly resourceful Colonel with whom the guerrillas, under their wavering leader, Anthony Quinn, cooperate in clearing out the Japs. Fely Franquelli. as a collaborator secretly aiding our forces, and Beulah Bondi. an American school teacher, capably handle the feminine roles. WEEK-END AT THE WALDORF— MGM A marvelous job of writing by Sam and Bella .Spewack and directing by Robert Z. Leonard has been done on this picture to give each of its talented stars the importance they deserve. Yes, there is a romance between Ginger Rogers, as a glamorous movie star, and Walter Pidgeon, a war correspondent, that is worth a picture in itself. There is another between an Armj' Captain living on borrowed time (your favorite. Van Johnson) and the hotel public stenographer (a grand role for Lana Turner ! ) . There's high financing by Edward Arnold, a promoter trying to put over a shady deal with some potentates ; comedy by Keenan Wynn and Robert Benchley; music by Xavier Cugat and liis orchestra with Lina Romay — all with the glittering and sophisticated background of the famous W^aldorf. JUNIOR MISS— 20f/i Century-Fox Typical teen-age dramatics of Sally Benson's Judy furnishes a grand role for that very capable Peggy Ann Garner. As the central figure in this film, Peggy has a wonderful time with her juvenile philosophizing, calling to memory all the movies she's seen to solve her problems When her father loses a junior partnership in a law firrh, when she imagines he's in love with his boss's secretary, when her long-lost uncle returns from a mysterious trip — all of these dilemmas as solved by Judy add up to one prolonged chuckle. Allyn Joslyn, Sylvia Field. Michael Dunne, Fay Marlowe and Mona Freeman are wonderful support. THE WAY AHEAD— 20t/i Century Release One of this film's biggest assets is the reappearance of David Niven w-ho deserted our shores for the British Army when his country needed him. Another asset is the natural, down-to-earth handling of the theme — the changing of a motley crowd of English civilians into the typical British Tommy. There's not much difTerence in their routine and ours, but nonetheless you will not find a dull moment in the story, carrying the boys from the draft stage through their rigorous training and finally adding dramatic scenes of warfare. A Two Cities Film. (More reviews on page 97) 10 S C R E E N L A N D