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Principal virtue of Kid Galahad is a verisimilitude which is not confined to Wayne Morris' ring appearances, and these are among the most realistic scenes of the sort yet portrayed on the screen. The picture exhibits pugilism's backstage activities in bars, night clubs and areaways with such faithfulness that an audience of sportswriters, managers and boxing officials invited to a Manhattan preview last week amused themselves by trying to identify the characters. Said Madison Square Garden's jaunty Fight-Promoter Jimmy Johnston, who is currently embroiled with the New York State Athletic Commission, when Nick Donati...
...after its immediate purpose was forgotten. More than half a million copies were printed in the U. S. and England. It was translated into Spanish and printed in Peru to stir patriotism in war against Chile. Succeeding generations saw The Man Without a Country done on the stage and screen. Last week a fashionable Manhattan audience was first to see it done as an opera...
...would be more effective if Director W. S. Van Dyke had avoided more of the cliches that tend to attach themselves to all pictures involving 1) soldiers, 2) gangsters, 3) emotional triangles. To balance its defects, They Gave Him A Gun, no masterpiece but a fast-moving, adult screen play, has the ad vantage of highly proficient performances by its three principals, notably Gladys George in her first major role since Valiant Is the Word for Carrie. Good shot: Jimmy's version of the feat that got him the Croix de Guerre...
...Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind? Last week Producer Selznick failed to substantiate a rumor that Rhett had been assigned to an obscure American actor discovered in British cinema named Ken Duncan. Backer Whitney's wife, Philadelphia's sprightly onetime "Liz" Altemus, was screen-tested for Scarlett, which she will not play. Other major Selznick productions will be Prisoner of Zenda, with Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Mary Astor; also Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Nothing Sacred in Technicolor. First and most novel Wanger production will be Vogues of 1938. Most publicized...
...actually get out on the water, for it takes Hollywood longer than it took Kipling to create the character of rich, spoiled Harvey; but from then on it is all Kipling and the characters portray the gripping tale with the greatest acting you are likely to see on the screen this year--Harvey, Manuel, Captain Disko (Lionel Barrymore), Long Jack. Perhaps the only sour note is the millionaire, Harvey's soupy father, played by Melvyn Douglas; it is doubtful if he is just what Kipling meant...