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Finland, which last fall showed more spunk than the rest of the Baltic countries put together, was in line for more trouble last week. A gang from the Association-for-Peace-&-Friendship-Between-Finland-and-the-Soviet-Union (for which Moscow claims 20,000 members, Helsinki 200) started a fire in a public square in Helsinki. A Canadian volunteer who had fought in the Russo-Finnish War shot one of the Peace-&-Friendship boys. In Moscow, Tass began blustering against Finland and an incident appeared to be in the making...
There the parallel ends, for When The Daltons Rode is no sly Destry but a fairly conventional Western whose big-city actors often are merely incongruous. Retelling the story of the famed & feared Dalton gang of the '90s as the saga of a family of farm boys who are dispossessed by a land company and avenge themselves on their fellows by turning frontier bandits, it is good in precisely the ways hundreds of Westerns have been good before: the train robbery, the chase through the sagebrush, the last great scene where false men and true shoot it out until...
...German or a Jew, but of the screen's most Typical American Girl, smart, slapdash, big-eyed Joan Bennett. When Miss Bennett, for all the world like the heroine of a Gary Grant comedy, slithers up a Berlin street in a low-slung roadster and comes upon a gang of Storm Troopers beating a few old Czechs, the smash is terrific...
Vichy itself was described as a hotbed of political intrigue, with Communists, leaders of the "old gang," Fascists of all stripes struggling to get control of the State. Ex-President Albert Lebrun had departed for Switzerland. The Hotel du Pare, headquarters of the Government, was packed with visitors, politicians, newsmen. Marshal Petain held court in a corner of the lounge, ate behind a screen in the hotel dining room. Dark little Vice Premier Pierre Laval dashed off communiqués, handed them out personally in the lobby. Early each morning an airplane took off from Vichy, headed northeast toward Wiesbaden...
...rest into efficient adoration. To thank Mayor Taggart for the free bed & board, Stokowski led his youths in a sidewalk serenade in front of the mayor's house, playing the stuffing out of John Philip Sousa's Manhattan Beach, El Capitan and Semper fidelis, Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here...