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Divorced. By Ann Dvorak, 34, onetime Hollywood extra whom Howard Hughes raised to stardom in Scarface: Leslie Fenton, 43, film director-producer, former cinemactor-portrayer of dope addicts, gangsters and moral weaklings; after 14 years of marriage, no children; in Hollywood...
Borrowing from your own, or some other nation's, storehouse of folk music is an old composer's trick. Dvorak and Puccini used U.S. tunes. Tchaikovsky not only reworked Russia's own Song of the Volga Boatmen but borrowed a bar or two from Italian music. Ravel, Chabrier and Rimsky-Korsakov took from the Spanish; Aaron Copland from the Mexicans. Last week the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. decided to work each other's musical gold mines officially...
Abilene Town (Jules Levey-United Artists) is just one more in a current series of Western omelettes. This time Randolph Scott is the fighting marshal and Ann Dvorak the beautiful, bad-tempered barroom singer. Against a background alive with neighing, gunfire and the sound of crashing wagons, Marshal Scott states the theme by drawling that thar ain't no justice in Abilene Town. He's dead right: hard-drinking cattlemen raid the village every few weeks, brawl in the bars and take pot shots at the God-fearing homesteaders who have settled on the town's outskirts...
Deep-voiced, leggy Ann Dvorak is an admirably put-together heroine. The same cannot be said of the prop furniture: it gets mixed up in Randolph's rough-&-tumble fights and falls apart before it is really...
Because the story has no place to go, it stops whenever it has an opportunity for a song, a gag, an auto chase or a rough-&-tumble fight. Near the end of all the nonsense, Ann Dvorak puts on a ballet, purporting to be about Montezuma but looking something like a barroom engraving of Custer's Last Stand. Although the ballet seems to have been elaborately and lavishly staged, the camera gives it only a routine glance...