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Love and Babies (by Herbert P. Mc-Cormack, produced by Morris Green and Frank McCoy) is a domestically salacious trifle purporting to show how husbands and wives talk about procreation. Plot: a wife wants a baby, her husband does not. To soften him the wife invites as guests a couple who have a baby. The childless husband takes an interest but keeps his attitude. Meanwhile the father-husband fears his child has stolen his wife's love, receives an invitation from the childless wife to father her baby. He agrees, then reneges because he wants the other husband...
Moonlight and Pretzels (Universal). The extraordinary thing about this musi-comedy is not that it resembles Forty-Second Street and Gold Diggers of 1933 in plot, pattern and environment; that it has the same type of dances, staged by Bobby Connolly, and the same type of songs ("Dusty Shoes'" for a finale instead of ''Forgotten Men"); or that its ingenue, Mary Brian, not only looks like Ruby Keeler but has obviously been coached to. speak in the same soft monotone. The surprising aspect of Moonlight and Pretzels is that it makes plausible Hollywood's profound conviction...
Item: 1887, the youth Josef Pilsudski nicknamed "Ziuk" by his fellow students at the University of Kharkhov, was arrested and charged with complicity in an abortive plot to assassinate Tsar Alexander III. Among leaders of the plot who were hanged was the elder brother of Nikolai Lenin. Though nothing could be proved against Prisoner Pilsudski, he was sentenced to five years exile in Siberia Last week Dictator Pilsudski remembered that in Siberia he was well treated by sympathetic guards, was even permitted to go hunting with a double-barreled shotgun...
...Plot New Galaxies...
...nobbled again. Which is why Lord Tilbury is seized by his beefy scruff and thrust into a dark and dirty shed. And why young Monty Bodkin, his discharged subeditor, regains employment with His Lordship. And why, since the ms. of the racy reminiscences is the other jewel of the plot, the Empress ultimately makes a meal of said ms. and, one complication having thus consumed another, the agreeable young people involved (the other young man is Ronnie Fish; the girls, "good old" Gertrude Butterwick and Sue Brown) are free to marry and the reader's ribs to recuperate...