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Belcher Sirs: TIME publishes the most trustworthy of movie guides, but why don't you do about Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's belching lion? W. D. HUMPHREY Sherbrooke, Quebec
Public Hero No. 1 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). There is not much variation possible in the formula demanded by the current cycle of G-Men pictures. In this one, Scenarist Wells Root did about all he could by making the heroine (Jean Arthur) the sister of a crook rather than of a Federal detective, and by letting the audience mistake the G-Man hero for a criminal until his visit to his superior reveals that the jail break he engineered was really a trick to gain the confidence of the leader (Joseph Calleia) of the Purple Gang, who escaped...
These and some 70 other sticklers must be answered by the boy who would join the Royal Lions Auto Club of Stockbridge, Mich. It exists because a country school near Stockbridge offered no course in automobiles and 13-year-old Pupil Harold Mayer wanted to know all about them. He founded the club three years ago, took it along with him to Stockbridge High School, where it now has 150 members. Beaming on this venture in self-education, high-school officials furnished a schoolroom for weekly meetings, appointed a faculty adviser. Automotive manufacturers send lecturers, catalogs, publicity handouts, occasionally lend...
...Flame Within (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). For attention from the current cinema, Department of Justice agents' only rivals on the distaff side are female psychiatrists. Like Dr. Everest (Claudette Colbert) in Private Worlds, Mary White (Ann Harding) in this picture is baffled when her own life presents the sort of symptoms she is accustomed to deal with in her patients. Having healed the suicide fits of an heiress (Maureen O'Sullivan) by treating her sweetheart (Louis Hayward) for advanced dipsomania, she finds her maternal instincts for the latter in a state of overstimulation. Her confrère (Herbert Marshall...
Princess Catherine, pretty young daughter of the late King Constantine of Greece, turned up "incognito" in Hollywood, wanted to visit studios. Sigvard Bernadotte, grandson of Sweden's King Gustaf V, who was disowned for marrying a commoner and now works as a cameraman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, took her to see 300 pies and 200 cream puffs thrown at a cinemactor. Gasped Greece's Catherine to Sweden's Sigvard: "My goodness, how I envy you! I wish I had a job here...