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When the soldiers at Camp Barkeley, Tex. saw a clinch interrupted in the movie Forest Rangers, they yelled "As you were!" Hedy Lamarr's sinuous maneuvers against Richard Carlson in White Cargo brought forth wolf howls in low register. When Charles Boyer laid hands on Rita Hayworth in Tales of Manhattan, only to unhand her and start over again, one impatient soldier yelled, "For crying out loud! Stop wasting our time!" The U.S. fighting forces take active pleasure in the motion picture...
Many of the throng went especially to hear Claude Alphand sing. She is a beautiful, blonde, rather waxwork-like Frenchwoman who accompanies her balladry on the guitar. Rated by many as the best French chanteuse since Yvette Guilbert and Lucienne Boyer, she sings with a feline throatiness and great stylistic elegance. Her favorite song...
...Hecht story concerns a tail-coat, bought from the tailor by Charles Boyer, and passing in turn to Henry Fonda, Cesar Romero, Charles Laughton, Edward G. Robinson, and Paul Robeson, ending up ingloriously on a scarecrow in a poor negro's corn patch. The coat brings happiness to some and serves as a jinx to others, but it travels merrily on its way, oblivious of all the trouble it is causing. The film is divided into five sequences, the first is marvelous, but by the end of the two hours, the audience is more than ready to say farewell...
...best part of the whole picture is the opening twenty minutes--bringing in Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth (Oh Rita), and Thomas Mitchell, who plays one of the best drunken jealous husbands in years. Charles Boyer is a self-loved Broadway Romeo who makes bedroom eyes at Rita, who out bedrooms him until her husband interrupts with a rifle. Boyer puts on a show that makes the whole picture worth seeing, but Mitchell gets his wife back...
...turns out to be Masher Benchley's boy. Like his old man, he uses the Park Avenue technique, tells her that "you and I could make beautiful music together." Like father, he fails even to take Sedan. One chubby little cadet just leers forlornly, like a bleached Boyer...