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Four Wives (Warner Bros.) increases and multiplies the joys and sorrows of the four daughters (Rosemary, Priscilla, Lola Lane and Gale Page) of old Music Master Lemp (Claude Rains) in a typical U. S. townlet. This time maternal instinct defeats the considerable ingenuity with which, in Four Daughters, Director Michael Curtiz managed to keep cinemaudiences straight about, and interested in, the doings of four leading characters in one picture...
...Manhattan was held a meeting of a society known as the Alden Kindred of New York and Vicinity. Qualifications for membership: to be one of the 5,000,000 descendants of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins-vicinity, it was explained, meaning anywhere in the U. S. Twelve members, none named Alden, showed up, discussed plans for the winter...
...Vancouver, B. C. debarked chubby Orphan Helen Priscilla Stam, aged 5, on her first trip out of China. When she was three months old, Chinese bandits broadsworded off the heads of her missionary parents, would have done the same to Helen had a Chinese Christian not offered (acceptably) his life for hers...
Daughters Courageous (Warner Bros.-First National). Cinemaddicts who saw Four Daughters, with John Garfield's bitter suicide and Gale Page and the Lane sisters (Priscilla, Rosemary & Lola) winding up behind various eight-balls, may expect quite a turn from this cinema. Daughters Courageous racks the whole bunch up again for a new break-less bruising, less startling, more fun to watch...
...sort of early-bird Enoch Arden, vagabonding back to mother and the girls after 20 years of French leave just as mother is fixing to marry again. This time John Garfield is an incredibly graceless, beachcombing wise guy, a rhinestone in the rough with some strange romantic glitter for Priscilla. This time mother and the girls all get what is best for them, and nobody suffers more than a bad case of sniffles. Next time, the four daughters will return in something called Four Wives...