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September 28, 1940.

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Deanna Is In Love

Walter Pidgeon is the pineapple grower from Hawaii who suffers from Deanna Durbin's newest attack of calf love in "It's A Date."

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Film: "It's A Date."

Stars: Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis,

Walter Pidgeon.

Verdict: Definitely a date.

--King's

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Two Against

the Antarctic

Two Men in the Antarello, by Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe, New York. Macmillan. Cambridge. At the University PreR.

FORGIVE the pure poetry, but to see HERE is a readable narrative

Deanna Durbin is to watch a flower which seeme unfolding.

In this witty, delicious and altogether cap. tivating picture, ber face has fined, her perkiness is tempered by a new diffidence, her sense of fun has become a sensitive humour, her acting ability is no less than it was, and her voice, even if it is occasionally ruined by hoarse recording, still rings out sweet and true.

Deanna has become an entrancing young woman, and she wears this gay piece of absurdity with so much more spirit than the conventional coming-out dress,

Aw y with all prettiness and blushful maidenhood! It's A Date is funny. It's A Date

is malicious. film.

It's A Date is a thoroughly adult

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There is 7}]] who sells pineapples in Honolulu, There is ti great actress whose mother was a great actress and whose daughter is Deanna Durbin.

Pineapple Pidgeon falls in love with Tragedy-Queen Francis and is immediately ac- cepted by Deanna, who does not quite understand th..t anyone could consider her mother still worthy of marriage.

fin based Hon

the best-sellingt novel, "Oh,

Film: The Road to Singa- All this brekking down to the inn "My Son, My non" is a T but Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Bing and Hob get back in part after British Hope, Dorothy Lamour.

Verdict: A very pleasant road.

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fantastic. "The Antarctic is not to be trifled with; an expedition must be well housed, well found. and well manned," writes Frank Debenham, O.B.S., M.A., direc-

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tor of the Scott Polar Research The result is as neat and pretty a pattern of comedy and near-tragedy Institute at Cambridge, in Fi

think I ron } did

will foreword to the book. you

a voyage on one of Bing's dod's boots Absolum

First, they have to dispise til a couple of guys sent around by une Aherne, Louis Hayward, and Made- of Bob's old girl friends. They give ete Carroll at the three corners. Irun the "Pulty-cake," ring hands, And then there is up-and coming then suck.

be royally entertained. Laraine Day providing background

tainly promise that you will be en- chanted.

i toully made entertainment.

-Queen's, Alhambra

COUPLE of embryonic Gauguins daub themselves

Then there in the trouble with tragedy with paint so that they can get Bing's father and his flancee, who something to eat at a native botli seran to think that he should feast in the South Seas town it down The inde dingose of of Kaigoon and malters are just

Bai problem by fleeing to Koigoon.

Existence in Kalgoon 1 ye about as they are throughoul until they run inte Dorothy LamOUT "Road to Singapore."

being abused by her dancing partner, The infs who don the paint are, of Antony Quinn. The boys lake eace fame of course, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, of him with a one little those distinguished fugitives who "Patly-rake," and she decides to take spend their line

Este hou picture care of them as banking in the tropies where they keeping Koes

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hope to avoid matrimony.

Although they resent it at first, But, of course, when Bing geta u

has bea chumen to erum to Miss Lonour and they decide they ke

fall in Hob can keep her amused, the boys around, and both of them

2001: of on the Wronk track love with her

are

agnin

THE BOY TERROR

TN that village schoolrooin 16. the inn. presided over by his mother, he was as often ne nou on pli fonira underneath 11 benches pinching the bare legs of the other boys and girla HE face frightened them whenever he wanted a thing, so determined he looked, with tile immetise, dark shining eyes beneath the bulging forehead

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Obattle girl, the prettiest in the class mood in peculiar terro of him. He would be on the watch for her in the fielda, be hind a buah. on her way school, and would spring

upon her suddenly.

to

out

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a bit fascinated no doubl

Seven years old. she WAJ woman enough to enjoy being tyrannised over by this young man of tra Of a sudden ne would king ner. nexi moment catching hold of tur two faas plaits of hair and making her play at being a horno while he drove her

The Hille boy's name 1901 Bento Mussolini" The above pas sage is taken from "The Life Story of Benito Afussolini,” by Margherita Sarfatti, to which Mussolini prote 。 preface which he said: "This book alcasos C

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cide in leave, but his heart belongs to Dolly and vice vers and it takes lot of horsing around to get them back together agai

Easy to take are the five hit songs, woven Into the picture by Victor Schertzinget. the director Among then Te "Too Romantic," The Moon and the Willow Tree" and **Kalgoon." Bing and Miss LumixIT sing then and of course The 18 much daring by native girls

Film: "My Son, My Son." Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Brian Aherne, Louis Hayward. Verdict: A very fine film.

--King's

HE story, by Howard Spring,

Tas the very great merit

That it takes for theme that eternally recurring circumstance -the affection of a self-made) father for an unworthy son.

This is strong stuff, handled with sincerity und understanding

burn against the background of the growing twentieth century.

and

This, undoubtedly, is one of those rare lins wherein the cinema justi- fes Iself as urt.

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Bing Crosby learn the mystery of the sarong from Dorothy Lamour. It all happens on "The Road to Singapore."

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Civilians are to be sured "If you tell evETY - thing I ask you have no- thing to be afraid of.”

All through the book's specimen conversations the shooting warning runs like a refrain.

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"Yet here were two young and in- experienced men proposing to winter on a tiny islet in a disused boat with handful of instruments and ranty stock of provisions. They had a hammer and a saw, packing cases and odd nails, lots of ideas and ship- Fonds of hope. They confounded the erities by not merely existing under isch conditions but by carrying outi a programme of scientific work as

well

The two were the juniors of on |expedition of four men to Graham Lond 1920-1922, the seniors both baving had previous polar experi- Ene After reaching the Anturetic bomewhat precariously and being placed at a disudvasiage from the standpoints of position and fluance, the expedition reviewed itself, and the seniors devided to abandon the adventure But lough whaling cap- Bains failed to dissunde the juniors

The object of the expedition was to extend the discoveries of the Swedish Antarell Expedition of 1001-03 under Dr Otto Nordenskjold, by continuing the inapping of the westerni cnastiine at the Weddail Sen, and also to link up, if possible, the point of termination of that ex- pedition's survey with the Caird Const dbcovered by Sir Ernest Shackleton in 1915.

From the time they were landed to their departure on a whaler, the explorers carried on with sconticat equipment, and the record "tells of Bright Brnes as well as dull ones to dispel the popular Idea that the Antarctic is a place only of Krim hardships amid the relentless cle- ments.

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they

and the

As unorthodox as the preparation for the adventure and the living of it is the author's final report on this, the first British party to winter la that part of the Antarctic

mallest that has ever been South. This report is marked by a galety

that set it and humour

apart in polar recurds. It is amazing that two men who had to cook, tend their doga, and keep their hut whole, could and time for compiling natural history log, a meteorological log, an ice log, and even a tidal log on their tiny refuge--and come out ot it laughing.

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