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...overtaxed his heart, his eyesight failed, and he became too crippled with arthritis to sit on a horse. He wrote a novel-the sort of book, said Van Wyck Brooks, read only by friends of the author -and The Oregon Trail and The Conspiracy of Pontiac, but the great epic of exploration and conquest that he visualized was not even begun...
...movie on the double-bill is "Rose of the Yukon," and it's awful. But it is interesting in that it shows how producers of "B" pictures have jumped on the "hate-Russia" bandwagon. Instead of cattle rustlers or foreign baddies of obscure allegiance, this touching and horrible little epic of the far north has a real live Soviet Union as the agent of evil. One Russian thug is even made up to look just like Stalin, to clear up any doubts the audience might have...
...Plainfield, N. J., on behalf of a jungle epic called Man Eater of Kumaon, ushers took turns stuffing themselves into a tiger skin to do some pacing and growling in the lobby...
...Voice intended to conquer the world, and, through his familiarity with such contrivances as rocket-ships and atomic persuaders, damn near succeeded. But after weathering several molecular blasts, Superman balked the "power-crazed demon," who had had the United Nations eating out of his hand. Immediately following this chilling epic, however, Superman dawdled a whole fortnight, breaking up a dowdy bunch of racketeers engaged in fixing football games...
Other features of interest include a newsreel resume of the world series and another sporty movie entitled Sports Golden Age, playing at the South Station. The Old South is featuring an epic entitled Dreams That Money Can Buy, which Seymour Peck of the New York Star has described as "surrealist, Freudian, and disturbing...