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Earl Carroll's Vanities (Music & lyrics by Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler; dialog by Jack McGowan). "Perhaps I'm a doddering old softie," 0. 0. Mclntyre admits in a preface to the Vanities program, "but in these blizzardy days of a world in chaos it seems heartening that to Earl Carroll nothing is ever lost, that there is no such thing as defeat and that life itself can be a perpetual triumph...
Most of the music, by Howard Arlen (You Said It), is pleasant. Best tune: "I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues...
Tiger Shark (Warner Bros.) is a bloody cinema of tuna fishing in trawlers out of Southern California's San Diego. Edward G. Robinson is a Portuguese captain who saves Richard Arlen from the sharks, loses a hand to them, is married by Zita Johann for gratitude, not for love. When he finds that Arlen, his best friend, is in love with his wife, he bashes him with his hooked stump and throws him to the sharks, himself falls to them and dies of the attentions of a shark that crawls up his back as he is pulled back into...
...have, so much literary loyalty did its editor inspire, that literati contributed mostly without pay, among them Shaw, Chesterton, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Havelock Ellis, Wyndham Lewis. Editor Orage's special genius lay in discovering new writers, helping them develop themselves. Over 40 famed writers-including Katherine Mansfield, Michael Arlen, Richard Aldington, the Brothers Powys, Rebecca West, Storm Jameson-got their start in his paper...
...Richard Arlen is one of the new actors in Hollywood today who, in our estimation, earns all he gets. We have liked him ever since he stood behind a chair in "Wings", just before going off to war, and said "Yes, mother," to a series of questions whose purport was "Now you won't forget to change your socks when you get your feet wet, will you?" He is refreshingly masculine without being a blatant personality boy. He creates an impression of hard-fisted strength coupled to the right amount of feeling without resorting to the Clark Gable sneer...