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...something of a phenomenon in two different fields: architecture and the movies. In his Los Angeles office, he and a staff of eight are now designing: 1) a $7½ million Beverly Hills medical center; 2) a $1 million experimental theater for Paramount; 3) a studio for RKO; and 4) another hospital, two other theaters, two city-planning projects. All told, their volume of business tops $18 million. Last week, busy Mr. Pereira took on another job. He signed a five-year contract with RKO as a producer (for an undisclosed figure which added substantially...
...eyes in World War I. The sulky-looking, full-bosomed Ideal Woman that he created and developed was seen in all the slick magazines in the flat-chested twenties. Now 69, he is still painting pictures that get about-such as his archly compassionate conception of Rosalind Russell in RKO Radio's Sister Kenny...
Sister Kenny (RKO Radio) is a handsome, emotional film biography, skillfully knitted together out of interesting fact, harmless fiction and debatable propaganda. It will probably entertain most moviegoers-and it will most certainly raise the hackles on the American Medical Association's collective neck...
Rosalind Russell, aging slowly from a young (22) bush nurse to a hearty, outspoken spinster of 59, is excellent as Sister Kenny. A good friend and admirer of her living model and currently a director of the Kenny Foundation in Minneapolis, Actress Russell was the one who nagged RKO into making the picture. While remaining more handsome and lovable than her model could ever expect to be, she nonetheless manages to suggest the cantankerous personality which has made the real Sister Kenny a great fighter and a great nuisance...
Lady Luck (RKO Radio) is a tired, old-fashioned farce struggling with desperate unsuccess to palm itself off as fresh comedy-romance...