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Daniel Boone (RKO), the week's second item of Americana, was originally produced as a George O'Brien Western. It turned out better, partly because it is a relatively faithful adaptation of history, partly because Cinemactor O'Brien's chesty musculature fits perfectly the aver age conception of famed Long Hunter Boone, a middle-sized man who, wrote Audubon, "appeared gigantic...
Walking on Air (RKO) is a breezy comedy about the rich girl, Kit (Ann Sothern), who tries to force her father to let her marry a handsome bounder by pretending to be in love with a penniless college boy, Pete (Gene Raymond), whom she pays to masquerade as an objectionable French count. Sole variation on this time-honored theme is that Pete is also a crooner seeking a job in radio. This gives him opportunity to sing several pleasant new melodies (Cabin on the Hill-tot), Let's Make A Wish, My Heart Wants to Dance...
Swing Time (RKO) is the sixth item in that series of exhibitions of sublimated hoofing which have made the team of Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire currently the No. 1 cinema attraction of the world. It contains: three major routines by Rogers & Astaire, one by Astaire alone in blackface; six songs by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields of which at least two, The Way You Look Tonight and A Fine Romance, are likely to be hits; a story in which Astaire, as a dancer, and Rogers, as a dance teacher, are united after financial and emotional vicissitudes contributed mainly...
...Bride Walks Out (RKO) exhibits the difficulties, economic and temperamental, encountered by a devoted young couple who try to keep house on $35 a week. The bride (Barbara Stanwyck), in order to indulge her taste for $50 negligees, takes a job as a model. The husband (Gene Raymond) suffers from hurt pride. An alcoholic stranger (Robert Young) takes a hand in the proceedings at this point, almost breaks up the menage before the young pair's best friends (Ned Sparks and Helen Broderick) patch...
Bunker Bean (RKO). Admirers of Harry Leon Wilson's famed Merton of the Movies will find in Wilson's Bunker Bean another introvert so thoroughly frustrated that his past neglect by picturemakers seems inexplicable. Bean (Owen Davis Jr.) is a male secretary who spends evenings typing, gratis, a fellow-roomer's treatise on reincarnation. Gathering from this work that a man's success depends on knowing what he was in past incarnations, Bean consults a seeress who tells him he was Napoleon Bonaparte. To live up to his astral personality, Bean buys a loud checked costume...