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Conditions in the local theaters are sad, too. Loews is proud of a Technicolor Tommy Dorsey and a badly hacked, deleted Cole Porter score in "Du Barry Was A Lady." The RKO, on the other hand, likes its outrages in the flesh, and consequently has both Tommy Tucker, and--of all people--Margie Hart, singing--of all things--a parody of "You Made Me Love You," dedicated to Mr. Minsky...
Pola claims the advent of talkies had nothing to do with her leaving Hollywood in 1928. In Europe, she played in one British film, Street of Abandoned Children, in one French film, Fanaticisme, but was soon back again in the U.S., starring in RKO's million-dollar A Woman Commands (TIME, Feb. 8, 1932). During its shooting, Pola collapsed from what she calls a "chronical appendicitis," nearly died. The early '303 were lean years for her. She had been reduced to making a personal appearance tour, playing four shows a day; was twice prevented from leaving...
Boston music doesn't seem to have been particularly affected by the current heat wave. The Ken was left dank and dismal last Sunday afternoon, with not even Pete Brown showing up to relieve the monotony. Cab Calloway and the RKO stage shows. Louis Jordan at the Tis Tec, had a pretty good little hand back in the days of the Decco into six album, and even later than that is the days of "Knock Me A Kiss, and Mama, Mama Blues"; but now he's building up a reputation for having the biggest little comedy band in the country...
Spitfire (Goldwyn-RKO-Radio) can serve as a fine epitaph for gentle, charming, intelligent Leslie Howard, whom the Nazis this month shot down in the Bay of Biscay (TIME, June 14). Howard produced, directed and played the lead in the film. The picture itself is a finely tasteful, faithful biography of one of Britain's newest and least-known heroes-the late, great aircraft designer Reginald Joseph Mitchell. As designer of the tactically superior* Spitfire fighter, Mitchell was one of a few men-Churchill was another -whose foresight had much to do with saving Britain and her allies...
Bombardier (RKO-Radio) is a Hollywood salute to the Norden bomb sight, which is at one point tenderly compared with the goose that laid the golden egg. Before Pearl Harbor, Major Davis (Pat O'Brien) believes in the bomb sight. His friend Captain Oliver (Randolph Scott) scorns it. At their New Mexican training field, Davis' pretty secretary (Anne Shirley) romantically if irrelevantly pads out the footage. The bomb sight argument is finally settled in a night raid on Tokyo, when Captain Oliver compensates for his former skepticism by making a Japanese aircraft factory (and himself) a fiery...