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Those who find their way into the fine Arts this week will find as the chief bit of amusement a French satire on modern dictators. "Charlemagne" tells the story of a stevedore on a private yacht whose owners are escaping from their responsibility for producing a play that is a fiasco...
...fear there are those young ones as yet unfamiliar with his ways, a happy word of counsel may not be out of place. Sagmus, his old friend and philosopher, is wont to take the Vagabond under his warm wing. Not to reform, mind you, for the philosopher is a bit of a vagrant himself, but to befriend with wisdom. And the Vagabond seeks that precious jewel with all his heart. The talk was of travel; yet not travel of the common sort but of the imagination. For it is known to the Vagabond and those who have followed his trails...
...absorbing albeit somewhat overly sentimental version of "The Dark Angel". The theme is familiar; two boys and a girl are brought up together and with the coming of age both boys develop a thoroughgoing love for the girl. They are both fine fellows but Allan (Frederic March) has a bit more dash to him and from the start he has held Kitty's (Merie Oberon) undivided affection Gerald (Herbert Marshall), the other chap takes the blow manfully and along comes the War. During the Big Drive Allan disappears into a flurry of bombs and is given up for dead. Gerald...
...stage show is, well, the stage show is Morton Downey. And if one likes male Irish sopranos he will no doubt find the stage show interesting. As usual the ensemble, and the best in these parts, does a neat bit of stepping...
...showed a chorus massed to represent the U. S. flag. When Dancer Fred Astaire first appeared in Hollywood, he was deemed too lacking in acting ability and sex appeal to do more than a momentary turn in Dancing Lady, for which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer borrowed him from RKO. That bit made Astaire one of the five biggest box-office names in the industry. Teamed with Ginger Rogers?an almost equally capable comedienne who had been overlooked for years for the same reasons?he has since made an estimated $10,000,000 for the company which had at first been happy...