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September 20, 1941.
"THE RAMPARTS WE WATCH," now showing at the King's Theatre, is a full-length film, running into ten reels, made by the producers of the popular March of Time feature, it deals with German propaganda and sabotage in the United States Magic
during the last war, and also the reaction of the average Ameri- Porformanco can to it then and now..
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The film contains several cuts from old newsreels, including some depicting the late Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, King George V and others. It is an interesting cross-section of American life told in narrative form, but the picturo's main asset in the inclusion of sequences from a Nazi propa- ganda film, "Baptism of Fire," which was intended to put fear into the hearts of neutrals,
R.K.O. use a ten-minute ex- cerpt from it as a clinching, crashing climax..
You see a glowering Hitler, with Goering and Co. ob. sequlously waiting for the boss to give the word to devastate Warsaw.
You're given a front seat in a. Stuka while it power-dives and bombs a Polish railway siding. You see an identification parade, with a Warsaw quisling walking down lines of prisoners and smelling out (for shooting) those men considered "hostile to the Nazi regime."
You have a German commen- tator, spitting English like a Lyceum villain. Ho gloats- says angrily: "Because of the senseless resistance of Warsaw, the terms will be less lenient."
And at the end, after horrific shots of the smoking city, "the enemy is no more.""
This film was shown, over champagne and caviare, in the German Embassy at Oslo, just before Norway was invaded. Norwegian diplomats sat it out
Sophistication and scrtiment never mix woll, and they don't in "COME LIVE WITH ME," at the Queen's and Alhambra. This is a light romantic comedy, which starts in a sophisticated mannor and then about half-way through decides to go all senti niental. If the original tempo had been maintained it would have been a much better film,
On the pot of “Whistling in the Dark," which was being filmed maskarak nitidion in kollywood, Ann Rutherford, who plays opposite Conrad Veldt in the picture, welcomes Nirs F. K. Chang (left), wife of the Chinese Consul in Los Angeles, and Mrs P. N. Cheng, whose husband is Chinese Vice-Consul In New York City. Mrs Cheng Is reported to have been offered a post with the Central Motion Picture Company of China, and is call to be returning shortly to Chungklnt.
More Musicals
With an unprecedented de- Keeler, Harriet Ellard and Ozzle Nevertheless, it does provide mand for musical comedy Nelson with his band. The original
apparent
are by in the story and the screen play Rubert Andrews, good entertainment and James currently
movies, Columbia studios an- Stewart is at his best as a
Cole Porter has written songs in nounce six musicals, either in his own vein of gay sophistication struggling author, who marries production, or in process of for "He's My Uncle."
This is a a glamorous young Viennese preparation.
timely musical treatment of draftees, with patriotic motif. woman, as a business proposi- First to go before the cameras "Eadle Was A Lady" will be Gene tion, to save her from being de- was "Time Out For Rhythm," Markey's first film at Columbla under of his now long-term ported. Hedy Lamarr glides (formerly titled "Show Busi- the terms
Porter is writing gracefully, if rather stolcally ness). In the cast of this contract. Cole
for the
which is based on dim, cluborate musical are stage, an screen and radio favourites,
also has in preparation She is having an affair with a including Rudy Vallec, Ann from the original Everett Freeman. The agrees to divorce him she asks her Miller, Rosemary Lane, Allen name of the feminine star who will novelist husband for a divorce. He, Jenkins, Brenda and Cobina of head the
cast
will soon be announced. meantime, has sold: novel, the story radio fame: Joan Merrill, a new Of outstanding importance in the of his marriage and ils results, to a singing sensation; the
gal Three sextet will be publisher, none other than fan Hun-
version of the current Broadway hit. ter. Both the latter and his wife Stooges and Glen Gray and hie The book is by John O'Hara, with music by Rogers and Hart., George know that it is about them, but how Casa Loma Orchestra. **
Abbott, producer of the stage play, the married man win the girl?
will also produce the screen version,
through this role.
married man-and when his wife
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in stunned silence. But you willis it to end? Will the novelist or, Second to go into production will just feel angrier than ever,
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