The White Falcon - 06.01.1945, Blaðsíða 4

REVIEWS OF NEW MOVIES
ON NISSEN HUT CIRCUIT
The brief reviews appearing below represent an attempt on our part to give
ijou some idea of the new movies which will he placed on circuit here within the
next few days. Additional reviews, completing the present list, will appear next
week.
writer for this “Gay Nineti-
MY PAL WOLF
(RKO film starring six-year-
old Jill Esmond)
A picture featuring a little
girl and a dog scarcely needs
anything more to give it ap-
peal — but this one has a
fairly credible story, too. Ev-
en tbe rare individual who
doesn’t like dogs will like
MY PAL WOLF.
MINISTRY OF FEAR
(Paramount film starring
Ray Mi I land, Marjorie Reyn-
olds)
This is another “spy thril-
ler.” It begins in a lunatic
asylum which at times tbe
audience may be tempted to
think is tbe residence of tbe
director. By no means come
in on the middle of this pic-
ture or you’ll never know
what’s up. (P.S. — It’s real-
ly not as bad as all this, and
anyway you’re sure to like
Marjorie Reynolds).
RHAPSODY IN, BLUE
[(Warner, Bros, film starring
Joan Leslie, Robert Alda,
Alexis Smith)
Many of you have already
seen this at its premiere
showings. To sum up the
comments we’ve beard - the
music’s topnolch, the old-
timers (A1 Jolson, Eddie
Cantor and others) are good
to see again, and Joan Les-
lie “just can’t he beat,” but
most audiences found the
picture a little loo long (two
hour.', twenty-five minutes).
BOWERY TO BROADWAY
(Universal film starring Jack
. Oakie, Maria Montez)
If Universal hired a script
es” flicker “it got robbed!”
But maybe you’ve been slay-
ing in nights during these
past four or five years and
haven’t seen any "old-lime
musicals.” Some of the music
is pretty good, though.
SUNDAY DINNER FOR
A SOLDIER
(Twentieth-Century-Fox
film starring Ann Baxter,
John IJodiak)
Don’t be misled by the
name of this picture — ex-
cept for a very brief sequen-
ce at tbe end it isn’t “a flag-
waver,” but rather a very un-
assuming little screen play
about a family living on a
houseboat and preparing to
entertain a solider — any
soldier — for a Sunday din-
ner. Tbe outdoor sets of rur-
al America are very good tp
look at — and so is Ann Bax-
ter. We think you’ll enjoy
this film. •
THE DOUGHGIRLS
(Warner Bros, film starring
Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith,
Jane Wyman)
A: hotel room in over-
crowded Washington is the
backdrop for this screen play
jvhieh portrays tbe tribula-
tions of a bevy of curvacious
cuties who waver on tbe
brink of matrimony for an
hour and forty minutes and
then plunge over. It’s meant
to be funny, and more often
than not it is.
TALL IN THE SADDLE.
(RKO film starring John
Wayne, Ella Raines)
This is the new western
the critics are talking about.
They like it. We do too. “The
hero,” Jolm Wayne, jsn’t
quite as shy in this sage-hush
saga as the usual run of west-
ern flicker heroes, with the
result that there are some
fairly torrid love scenes be-
tween our John and Ella’
Raines. There are horses in
it loo.
CONSPIRATORS
(Warner Bros, film starring
Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid)
If you like movies about
spies you’ll really go for this
one, for it’s fairly crawling
with them. If you don’t like
“ spy pictures” - Hedy Lam-
arr’s in it, and as beautiful
as ever.
OUR HEARTS WERE
YOUNG AND GAY.
(Paramount film starring
Dianna Lynn, Gail Russell)
Back in the ‘Twenties’ two
young American girls, su-
specting the existence of
land on the other side of the
Atlantic, made an ocean voy-
age (unescorted) and wound
up in — among other places
—the look-out on top of Not-
re Dame Cathedral in Paris,
where the}' spent a night
shivering in their under-
wear. It’s an amusing little
picture.
LOST IN A HAREM.
(MGM film starring Bud Ab-
bot ( and Lou Costello)
Abbott and Costello fans
will undoubtedly laugh
themselves into a frenzy
over this one. Others may
derive more amusement
from a field manual.
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British lead©?
Says Spain Unde?
Irtffeenee Of Nazis
In a recent address to the
House of Lords, Viscount
Templewood — formerly Sir
Samuel IJoare — described
Spain as “practically a semi-
occupied country’” during
the greater part of the five
years he spent there as Brit-
ish ambassador.
“Although Spain was not
militarily occupied for those
early years, she was morally
occupied,” he said, adding
that the Nazis “had great in-
fluence in the police and in
the press.”
He revealed that Gestapo
agents seized men and wom-
en in Spanish territory and
took them into Germany or
occupied countries to be
killed or tortured.
Piavda, A. & N. Journal Engage
In Verbal Singles! Over Who's
Doing What To Beat The Germans
A battle of tbe inkpots lias
been going on in recent
weeks between tbe U.S.
magazine, Army and Navy
Journal, and the Soviet daily
Pravda. Last week tbe ver-
bal slugfest approached the
boiling point when a Pravda
editorial writer answered
what he interpreted as a
Journal implication that
Russia had not fulfilled the
military decisions of the Te-
heran Conference.
The Pravda writer stated j
that there are practically as
many German divisions en-
gaged on the southern sector
of the Eastern Front as are
engaged against all Allied
forces in the West.
Moscow News, only Eng-
lish-language newspaper in
the Soviet Union, joined the
battle to announce that on
Dec. 1, 220 enemy divisions
were lied up in tbe East, of
which no less than 200 were
German. Seventy, the news-
paper said, were locate^ at
the southern end of the
front.
Assailing the Army and
Navy Journal as “a source
of pro-IIitlerite propag-
anda,” Pravda claimed that
the Journal bad tried to dis-
miss its criticism with "hypo-
critical phrases, try
create the imprer: :m
had been misunderstood.
MAKE EVERY
PAY DAY
BOND DAY
JOIN THE PAY-ROLL
* SAVINGS PLAN *
Gen. Heishey Says
Workers Will Stay
On Job Or Else —
According to an order by
Draft Director Maj. Gen.
Lewis B. Hersliey, all men
between the ages of 18 and
37 with occupational defer-
ments who leave their war
jobs without the permission
of their draft hoard will he
reclassified for immediate
military service.
“It is increasingly necess-
ary,” Gen. Hersliey declar-
ed in his order to Selective
Service Boards, “that all per-
sons, and particularly regi-
strants 18 through 37, parti-
cipate lo the full exenl of
their abilities either In tbe
armed forces or the civilian
war effort.”
Previously, men 27 or over
were given deferments that
made them relatively free of
the draft. Along with the
announcement. Hersliey
“guessed” there will be a 10
to-20 percent bike in induct-
ions within the next few
months.
In Dallas, Tex., a woman
excitedly called police head-
quarters and exclaimed:
“My boy has been hit by a
car.” Upon which, two squad
cars and an ambulance rush-
ed to. the scene to find that
“My Boy” was a dog.
that i* INTENTION WAS GOOD!

GI PHOTO OF THE WEEK
PANTS PRESSED WHILE YOU WAIT
Cpl. Carl Y. Carlson of the TEng'rs. has caught a scene
typical of GI life anywhere from Iceland to the Hebrides.
Although the Cpl. is reluctant to name the fellows who
are in his picture, he has admitted that a super-duper
party was on at the Red Cross and the ARC Commando
on the right wanted to look his best for his “stulka.”
For winning first prize in The White Falcon “GI Photo
Contest,” Carlson has received a carton of cigarettes
and an 8x10 enlargment of his photo. All entries in the
“GI Photo Contest” should be sent to the Editor. The
White Falcon, Base Special Service.