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...fleet gunnery prize, an expert gun-pointer whose hitch expires just before target practice begins, and the girl who persuades him to re enlist. Jack Oakie, who has staked his petty officer's savings and his ship's trophies on the outcome, exercises more ingenuity and resourcefulness than his script-writers. Martha Raye opens her mouth wide, and makes faces, Ann Sheridan is also in the cast...
Different people have different hates about the movies. Some say the great old actors are vanishing from the scene, and in their stead are appearing a group of highly publicized, incompetent "starlets"; the John Barrymores are giving way to the Ann Sheridans. Some blame the script writers, some the directors. But though each of these arguments may be perfectly valid in regard to specific faults of the movies, they do not arrive at the basic cause for Hollywood's declining standards. This fundamental cause is the belief shared by practically everyone in Hollywood, that the movie-going public...
...Death, by veteran Script Writer Ruth Earth, done for Du Font's Cavalcade of America. A melodramatization, missing no tricks, of the U.S. Public Health Service's conquest of pellagra...
...Made Waterways, written for Columbia's American School of the Air by Hans Christian Adamson. A competent, cheerful educational script for students and South Americans...
Heaven is a happy joining of an honest, gusty book, a corking good script (Casey Robinson), slick production (Robert Lord) and direction (Irving Rapper), with a big and superior cast. It also has the one essential ingredient it had to have: the right man to play Pastor Spence. Backed up by the superbly restrained performance of delicate, big-eyed Martha Scott, Fredric March poses, postures, struts his Shakespearean dignity to his heart's sweet content. It is a first-rate job-possibly because in many a good minister there is a forgivable touch of theatrics...