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This time Crosby and Hope are a footsore carnival combination working their way through Africa. Hope, as Fearless Frazier, a harassed stooge who has to be shot from a cannon or wrestle an octopus, wants to get home to Birch Falls, Iowa. Crosby always interrupts the plan with a new enterprise. Before it is over, they take a safari through the jungle with Dorothy Lamour and Una Merkel, almost get eaten by cannibals...
...Strawberry Blonde" is a nice bit of escape back into the barber-shop days before the first World War, when men inhaled birch beer like coke and the biggest blood-suckers were only leeches. James Cagney in his usual punching self demonstrated that the world is his with two fists and a correspondence course in dentistry. He picked up an alluring nurse--Olivia de Haviland, in a swell park scene, but doesn't like her. Instead the cockney Irishman chases exciting Rita Hayworth, the strawberry blonde, and isn't fast enough to land her. But you knew he would marry...
Strawberry Blonde (Warner Bros.) answers James Cagney's constant prayer. It keeps him out of crime pictures. It puts him into a fragrant, funny picture of Manhattan of the '90s, when birch beer was a dandy drink and if you had a black eye you went to a barber shop and got a leech...
...Dodge's Louis S. Cates, who moved the market up ½? a pound to 11½?. Booster Gates has been wrong on his market many times, and no Phelps Dodge price sticks until Coppermen 1 and 2, Anaconda's Cornelius F. Kelley and Kennecott's Steve Birch, stamp it O.K. This time (with one eye on Washington) they did. Figuring this was just a starter, their customers bought in a rush...
Last week Alvar and Aino Aalto opened their own furniture store (Artek-Pascoe, Inc.) in Manhattan. The Aaltos' plywood sandwiches of maple and birch are shaped in Wisconsin, shipped East for assembly. Colors of the finished pieces of furniture-many of them Aalto-patented-ranged from natural finish through cellulosed red and blue to black. On display also went Aalto-designed screens and glassware...