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...Informer (RKO). When considering the Irish, the fixed policy of Hollywood in the past has been to do so in terms of either Abie's Irish Rose or Peg o' My Heart. Consequently, any picture of which the Irish hero is neither a rustic clown nor a cow-eyed crooner with a rush of brogue to the face can be classed immediately as a daring experiment. The Informer, of which the hero is a drunken, overgrown, dull-witted and cowardly Dublin bully, is a daring experiment and considerably more. Adapted by Dudley Nichols from Liam O'Flaherty...
Star of Midnight (RKO...
...RKO Keith's: "The Searlet Pimpernel...
...Laddie (RKO). The best-selling novels of the late Gene Stratton-Porter have generated some of the most outlandish ballyhoo in the weird history of cinema promotion. To honor A Girl of the Limberlost, Indiana set aside 75 miles of State highway running by the Stratton-Porter home, from Geneva to Rome City, called it The Limberlost Trail. In 1925 when F. B. 0. produced Keeper of the Bees hundreds of schoolchildren were persuaded to plant Gene Stratton-Porter memorial trees. Last week's ballyhoo for Laddie was in the tradition of its predecessors...
With the executive genius for which RKO wanted to pay him $30,000 a year if he would leave the Service, General MacArthur grouped the nine corps areas into four army areas: (1) North Atlantic States, (2) Upper Mississippi Basin, (3) Southern & Southwestern States, (4) Western. & Northwestern States. In emergency, these four Field Armies would probably be placed in command of the Army's ranking generals. Each corps commander would still function within his own "zone of the interior," attending to matters of mobilization, supply, training and transport on his own familiar ground, while his Army commander took over...