Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

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ith the stars Pictures expected in April • Kansas City ATKINS AUDITORIUM NELSON ART GALLERY 8 p. m. Admiision free. April 4— LA BOHEME. • LOEWS MIDLAND KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY— But your hanky may get a bit damp from a furtive tear or two tucked into this bright comedy of army manners. Lana Turner, Susan Peters, and Laraine Day are three gals who join the WAC and learn about sportsmanship. Agnes Moorehead is in it, too. THE CLOCK— Judy Garland without a song. She has Robert Walker instead. Together they give us this warm and sweet story of a soldier's leave. Paul Gallico wrote it. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY— Oscar Wilde's old moral tale retold with gestures. Hurd Hatfield is Dorian, the man whose portrait changes with the years and the sins, but whose own face remains guileless and young. George Sanders is the bored and blase Lord Henry into whose mouth Oscar put many of his own bitter-bright philosophies. Angela Lansbury and the Devi Dja dancers are included in the cast. WITHOUT LOVE— Another one of those bright, swift comedies starring the indefatigables. Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Lucille Ball is also around for color. • THE NEWMAN BRING ON THE GIRLS— A big, bright musical starring Sonny Tufts, Veronica Lake, Eddie Bracken, and Marjorie Reynolds. So you can see — it's very big and very bright. Lots of song and dance, with a bubble bath thrown in for good measure. PRACTICALLY YOURS — Another of those comedies about a uniform and a girl — distinguished this time by Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert and a pup with a pug nose. Robert Benchley does a droll routine with a sleeping bag. Slapstick and sentiment, nicely blended. OBJECTIVE. BURMA — Errol Flynn without wimmen. This time he's a paratrooper, operating behind Japanese lines in Burma. Henry Hull, George Tobias, and a let of others appear in this action piece directed by Raoul Walsh under the eagle-eye of four experienced technical advisers. Gripping as a stuck zipper— and several times more exciting. • RKO ORPHEUM THE THREE CABALLEROS— Disney out-Disneys Disney. This good neighbor extravaganza takes Donald Duck, Jose Carioca, and Panchito, a Mexican rooster, on a flying-serape tour of Mexico and points south of the border. About the trickiest and most colorful thing you ever sat dazzled through. New technique brings flesh (and what flesh!) and-blood senoritas into the cartoon, so that live actors and cartoon drawings dance and sing together and everybody's happy. • GOD IS MY CO-PILOT— Big and biographical. The story of General Chennault's Flying Tigers over the Burma Road — with Dennis Morgan as Col. Robert Lee Scott, Jr., and Dane Clark as one of the Tigers. Raymond Massey portrays Gen. Chennault. Some terrific airfights. Alan Hale makes a very convincing flying padre. IT'S A PLEASURE— And Sonia Henie is delectable in technicolor. Ice shows and hockey playing are all mixed up in this story of a girl's faith in a lovable scamp. Michael O'Shea is the scamp. Lots of pretty girls on ice. THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE — Tender little story of a plain girl and a disfigured soldier, who learn that love's illusion can be lasting. Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young are starred, with Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick, and Spring Byington. THE THREE THEATRES Uptown, Esquire and Fairway A ROYAL SCANDAL— Catherine of Russia again — this time mixed up with a young lieutenant in a fictitious affair directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Tallulah Bankhead and William Eythe play the hussy and the hussar, respectively. Anne Baxter is the lady in waiting. Probably the most luxuriously upholstered costume piece since Scarlett O'Hara tore down those green velvet drapes. SUDAN — Maria Montez romps through another Hollywood fairy tale, with Jon Hall and Turban Bey doing high deeds and looking just too wonderful. It'« in technicolor. Andy Devine supplies the laughs. THE SONG OF BERNADETTE ■ — returns at popular prices. Franz Werfel's novel made into a tremendous picture. Jennifer Jones won the Oscar last year for her portrayal of the French peasant girl who saw the vision at Lourdes. There isn't a bad performance in the film. Charles Bickford, Vincent Price, Blanche Yurka, Gladys Cooper, William Eythe, and especially Anne Revere are all just about perfect. Beautiful music — a beautiful picture. • THE TOWER On the stage — a new bill each week; singing, dancing, acrobatics, comics, and what-not — usually of considerable merit. On the screen — double features, either mystery, horror, breezy comedy, or westerns.