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...dangers of Japanese and Axis radio propaganda from the Far East were brought home to the U.S. last week in dispatches from Chungking and in the deep radio voice of a worn, heavy man named Carroll Alcott. The dispatches indicated that Jap broadcasts from scores of stations in Japan and occupied China were glutting the Asiatic air with "news" in Chinese, Burmese, Malayan and other tongues; that in default of good Allied counter-propaganda the "news" was taking effect. Carroll Alcott, who surely ought to know, had been warning about this for a long time...
Little Men (R. K. O. Radio, is the third cinema which harum-scarum Scenarists Gene Towne and Graham Baker have put out on their own. A "streamlined film version" of Louisa May Alcott's novel about life at the Plumfield Farm Boarding School in the late 19th Century, the Polly -androus story would hardly be recognized by Louisa May. Most intrusive revision: the addition of a pair of slick sharpers called Major Burdle (George Bancroft) and Willie the Fox (Jack Oakie). A period piece as heavy as a Victorian sideboard, the picture is lit up, as by an occasional...
...voice. Her notes are usually unintelligible to anyone but herself. Recent sample: "Willie going to war. Catalina and sleep. Stinkey Pinky. Fred. Claudette. He has to have three steps to get on the love. Betcha heights after ride. Berlin. Test Pilot. Marie Antoinette. Mrs. Chauncey Alcott. Biggest sin is not knowing who directing...
Jack Oakie and Borden Dairy's glamour cow, Elsie, were grafted onto Louisa May Alcott's actionless story about a country school. The result is a slow-moving film chiefly notable for a few scenes of clever Oakie slapstick and a bovine romance, between Elsic and the bellowing bull down the road. Hopelessly bogged down by poor script and a bustle, Kay Francis gives a mediocre performance...
...Connecticut audiences Poet-Professor Odell Shepard, Pulitzer-Prize biographer (Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott) who quit lecturing at Trinity College to campaign for Lieutenant Governor, sang a political ditty called Old Connecticut Is Coming, F. D. R. He called it an orphan, but it looked like his child. Cracked his Republican opponent, tall, suave Dr. James Lukens McConaughy, who is not only Lieutenant Governor but president of Wesleyan too: "If the State wants a Lieutenant Governor who can serve as its poet laureate, count...