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...Lady Takes A Chance (RKO-Radio) takes quite a few. It takes a chance with one more treatment of a well-worn story-pattern (the Cowboy & the Lady), and emerges from the scrimmage with a broad grin to offset its black eye. It takes a chance with making the cowboy (John Wayne) rather more than a nice boy, the lady (Jean Arthur) rather less than a lady, and both of them rather more primordially interested in each other than the Hays Office likes to feel that people should be. Director William Seiter seems to have fallen just short...
Behind the Rising Sun (RKO) is an 88-minute jag of ferocious anti-Japanese propaganda. Based on facts reported in U.S. Correspondent James R. Young's book of the same name (TIME, May 5, 1941), the picture's somewhat redundant purpose is to make Americans madder at the Japs than they are anyhow. But just as human endurance has its limits, so does human credulity: the picture defeats its own purpose. Its grueling patchwork of cinematrocities is likely to make most cinemaddicts as mad at the film as at the Japanese...
...RKO will not feature Miss Hart this week, however. Margie has gone back to her New York apartment for a week of recreation. It isn't rest, though, she says, for her Lieutenant-husband is coming into town to spend the week with...
Miss Hart, who has just ended her engagement at the RKO Boston, said that she is in reality a simple country maid from Kansas City, and, like the fresh and wholesome Queenie, she plans to go back there at the end of her career in the big cities...
Margie Hart walked into the dingy backstage at the RKO Boston and lit it up with her personality. She has given up the gentle art of a stripper and has embarked on a career of showing her soul to the patrons of RKO theatres in all cities outside the Bible Bell...