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Duffy's Tavern (Paramount) brings to the screen radio's Ed Gardner & friends - and bolsters them with a star-spangled variety show...
...Work, No Pay. In Denver, a prowler climbed a pole, jumped to a third-floor window, broke through a screen into an elevator shaft, leaped to a cable, swung over and kicked open a door to a corridor, climbed through, tried to cut a hole in the floor, finally tired of it all and left lootless...
Comedienne Joan Davis, who does visual pratfalls on the screen and verbal ones on the radio, went back on the air last week with a new distinction. For the first time, she was her own boss-and under a million-dollar-a-year contract which makes her the highest-paid woman performer in radio...
...promise of her Song of Bernadette. Restrained Joseph Gotten gives the film its needed ballast of sanity. Hilt-deep supporting performances are contributed by Gladys Cooper, Cecil Kellaway, and a brilliant Australian named Ann Richards. She has three-alarm beauty and four-alarm talent, and is the only screen actress since Ingrid Bergman to look wonderful in a shirtwaist...
...Technicolor anticipation. "The sun shone with an idiot brightness, but it was raining"-and out of the miasma loomed "dejected palm trees, a few worn mud buildings, aged water buffaloes . . . and a cluster of sickly natives, including several girls with rings in their noses who would never get a screen test." The G.I.s, stared in speechless horror- until "a colored soldier won immortality ... by throwing back his head and crying, in a long, high wail, 'Iran! Land of romance...