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Covering the Waterfront. Hennecke's naval gunners manned waterside batteries bearing such names as Bromm, Yorck, Hamburg and Landemer. They served their guns so well that lean, bushy-browed Rear Admiral Morton L. Deyo took his whole division of ancient U.S. battleships (Nevada, Texas, Arkansas), four cruisers and seven destroyers to blast them...
...Girls and a Sailor (M-G-M). The girls are sister nightclub singers named Patsy and Jean Deyo. Noble Patsy (June Allyson) is as reliable as the polestar; spoiled Jean (Gloria De Haven) is as unreliable as a polecat. The sailor (Van Johnson) gives his name as plain John Brown, so it comes as no surprise to learn that he is really John Dyckman Brown III, a democratic multimillionaire. Before the sisters learn his secret he spends a good deal of his fortune sending orchids (signed "Somebody") to flirtatious Jean, much to Patsy's pain...
Brown spends a good deal more of his money (again as "Somebody") turning a theatrical warehouse into a super-canteen where the Deyo girls, Harry James, Xavier Cugat, Lena Home, Gracie Allen and Jimmy Durante entertain soldiers, sailors and cinemaddicts. In the end, Jean falls in love with a Texas onion-rancher in sergeant's uniform, and the way is clear for the girl with the million-dollar conscience to embrace the million-dollar blue-jacket...
...this sort of story were performed for its own sake, it would play only to ushers and to those who scrape chicle from the undersides of theater seats. Played to music and other anesthetics, the plot is often hardly noticeable. Both Deyo sisters are nice to look at, and Gracie Allen obliges uproariously with her One Finger Piano Concerto...
...great mass of corporations, both in & out of war work, many failed to boost gross fast enough to outrace rising costs. Typically, F. W. Woolworth turned in an alltime high of $439,009,000 in sales. Burly, shrewd Charles Wurtz Deyo, 63, Woolworth's up-from-the-ranks president, who broke the 10?-top-price tradition back in 1932, found that this backbreaking upshove in gross was not enough. Woolworth profits sank to $21,952,000 v. $23,539,000 in 1942. General Electric fared little better. It announced a record volume...