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Victoria the Great (RKO Radio). Shaking from her pretty shoulders the garish costumes of two previous cinema roles-as Nell Gwyn and Peg Woffington -Britain's beloved Anna Neagle last week traced with pomp and piety Queen Victoria's long reign. Because the film is lengthy, because its subject is the most sanctified one in British history, awed critics detoured around its rough spots with wistful allusions to Helen Hayes and Victoria Regina, vaguely said that the picture, presenting almost precisely the same episodes as did Laurence Housman's play, was perhaps about as good...
...prototype's journal, from letters. In the picture she accurately mispronounces her consort's German, Prince Albert (Anton Walbrook) accurately mispronounces the Queen's English, and Abraham Lincoln (Percy Parsons), jammed into a sequence with Old Glory to keep U. S. patriots happy and near RKO box-offices, accurately pronounces American...
...proof that Producer Abbott's sympathetic impulses are guided by a hard head or a hot hunch, Broadway wiseacres pointed to his phenomenal success with last season's Room Service, which he sold to RKO Radio for $255,000. Room Service was a washed-up play property when unknown Playwrights John Murray & Allen Boretz brought it to Abbott. Sam Harris had tried it out in Philadelphia two years earlier with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer money. It was a $23,000 flop; When the Harris option lapsed, Abbott looked at the script, felt warmly toward it because it was about...
Breakfast for Two (RKO Radio) involves honored Tragedians Herbert Marshall and Barbara Stanwyck with pub-crawling, ventriloquism, loaded boxing gloves, custard pies and a butler named Butch (Eric Blore). They seem to enjoy the change...
...King (RKO-Radio) places Joe E. Brown, his great mouth and banshee yawp in the newspaper business, to the patent disadvantage of all concerned. In the course of his six-reel career he frustrates craven intrigues in a turbulent Graustarkian monarchy, out-halfwits his press rival, Paul Kelly, wins the hand of Puppet Princess Helen Mack...