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From this start it was but a short step for Johnny Barsanti and his forty majors to a full weekend. At RKO Paul Kelly got caught in a colored frenzy as Lionel Hampton put the audience in the aisles...
...Some of the best-known: Tamara Toumanova (RKO's Days of Glory), Joan McCracken (Oklahoma!), Sono Osato (One Touch of Venus), Irina Baronova (Follow the Girls), Alicia Markova, signed for a Broadway debut in Billy Rose's Seven Lively Arts...
...Army Signal Corps; RKO-Radio). The subject: war. The purpose: to make war as real as possible to people who will never otherwise experience it. The result is no more entertaining than war is. But from first to last it is impossible not to stare with fascination at this film...
...Lewis opened at the RKO Boston yesterday with George Brunies and Muggsy Spanier in the band. What some men will do for money!--Latest advice from NYC tells of Dorchester's Max Kaminsky, just out of the Navy, opening a new Village bistro, "The Pied Piper," Cless. Orchard, and Danny Alvin in the band
...Yellow Canary (RKO-Radio) is porcelain-jawed Anna Neagle sacrificing her good name by flashlighting the Luftwaffe's way to Buckingham Palace. Just to watch reputable Cinemactress Neagle play a fifth columnist for half a picture-length without once tipping the audience a wink or an apology is rather novel. More traditional kinds of suspense involve saboteurs, spies, counterspies and a plot to blow up Halifax. There is also a stunningly funny old comic (Margaret Rutherford), playing the sort of tetched, tweedy Englishwoman whose lightest whisper is a yawp. As a spy-thriller, the picture would be no better...