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...York" ranks high in entertainment, low as an artistic production. One fact probably follows from the other. For while a cast including Edward Arnold, Frances Farmer, Cary Grant, and Jack Oakie aims to please every taste, presence of such diverse and typed stars would without well-knit plot tend to disrupt any film into a series of bit performances. Such actually takes place, as the producers did not make out over well with their plot...
Last fortnight, Governor Ammons proclaimed that he was glad the records were out at last. Said he: "It was a cowardly trick and a plot designed to injure me." Lawyer Ellis, Reporter Sweet and Detective Gilmore announced that District Attorney Carroll had censored the records before making them public but, having caused scores of Colorado politicians to shiver in their boots for half-a-year, the vigilantes slyly added: "No one has ever bothered to ask but as a matter of fact we never contended the microphone records, outside of disclosing the duplicity of politicians and their faithlessness, contained evidence...
Readers who read beyond this purple lead were told more soberly that Bund leaders in more than 60 camps (chiefly near New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco) do not actually plot a revolution, but plan "to wrest control from the Communist-Jews when they start their revolution.'' The Times's investigators said that each Bund post has its select uniformed force "drilled in the goose step and . . . ready for any emergency," and that the policies of the Bund weeklies duplicate those of the Hitler-controlled press. No direct evidence connected the Bund with the German...
Ronald Colman, who can pick his self-assured way through the mazes of melodrama in fancy dress as no one else in Hollywood, doubles as Rudolf, uncrowned King of Strelsau, and his English cousin Rassendyll. Rudolf and Rassendyll, just to help out the plot, are dead ringers for each other. To foil a treasonous conspiracy led by Black Michael (Raymond Massey), Rassendyll impersonates his cousin, lets himself be crowned. He wishes more than ever that he hadn't when he meets Rudolf's fiancee, Princess Flavia (Madeleine Carroll). She falls in love with him quite legally...
Double or Nothing (Paramount). Tuneful musical, starring Bing Crosby and Martha Raye, whose plot turns on the adventures of four legatees of an eccentric millionaire...