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...Sullivan's Travels" is one of the strangest pictures that has come out of Hollywood in a long time; and also one of the best. Whatever it is is due entirely to Preston Sturges, because he both wrote and directed it, and because the ideas and the moods, rather than the plot, are the body of the film. Though Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake dos serve a good bit of credit for some fine acting, you cannot help feeling in a picture like this that they are merely interpreting somebody else's ideas. And those ideas are undoubtedly Mr. Sturges...
...boiled over when the Little Flower said that one of Mr. Morgan's unpaid assistants, Mrs. Preston Davie, must go. Eugenie Mary Ladenburg Davie, rich, beauteous, energetic, is no ordinary woman. A onetime leader of the Landon Volunteers, active in the G.O.P., she is vice president of the American Women's Voluntary Services, Inc. Enlisting in Mr. Morgan's department as head of a wartime food-conservation program, big May Davie soon made feathers...
...feather-filled air he finally cornered Butch. As Mr. Morgan described the interview: "He began hollering at me and yelling for me to dismiss Mrs. Preston Davie. . . . 'Fire that dame! Fire that dame!' he kept yelling." Mr. Morgan decided that the time had come. He handed over his resignation. LaGuardia snapped it up. Shouting, "La commedia è finita!,"* opera-loving Fiorello waved Mr. Morgan goodby, threw Mr. Morgan's secretary out after him and demoted Mr. Morgan's chief inspector. Gritted Mr. Morgan: "A complete and utter outrage...
...other picture, "The Night of January the 16th," is a first-rate murder-adventure story about a girl (Ellen Drew) who comes dangerously near being convicted of a murder which, needless to say, she didn't commit. Robert Preston, who manages to clear her of the charge, is his usual dashing self. Included in the plot are many amusing situations, and the picture, unlike "Bahama Passage," moves along at a good rate. On the whole, it's by far the better...
...inevitable as the happy ending the virtues of national defense make a forced and over-obnoxious entrance into the picture when the drafted Montgomery, who had never been able to match his brother in a trial of fisticuffs, comes back, on furlough and knocks Preston Foster on his ear. This finishes the business...