Word: fadeouts
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...Indo-China Paula makes love to Jonny. In Manila, Paula treats Cinemactor Gable to some ear-fondling that would paralyze censors less innocent than those in the Hays Office, lures him once more into a psychological betrayal of Brother Kirk. Then the action shifts to Bataan. A swift fadeout, filled with the keening crescendo of an enemy shell, ambiguously ends the lovers' fitful fever as Jonny finishes dictating a bangwhang spate of headline copy to his newspaper...
...pretty, American musicomedy star with a headful of russet red curls, Miss Hayworth meets Dresser on the Chautauqua circuit, irks him to Manhattan, sings his songs, falls in & out of love with him to the final fadeout. Director Cummings never lets these familiar tactics grow tiresome. Blessed with some truly imaginative and exciting sets, some of the best musical arrangements of this or any other season, a powderbox-full of new dance routines, inspired costuming, he manages to make the gaslight era seem just around a very inviting corner...
Others affected by Santa Anita's fadeout: the State Treasury, which will lose nearly $2,000,000 in taxes (mostly from pari-mutuel handle); the track's restaurant concessionaire, who last week removed $80,000 worth of liquor, canned goods and other provisions, 4,300 track employes, including pari-mutuel clerks, veterinarians, Pinkertons, parking attendants, waiters and the bugler who toots the horses to the post...
...play stinks, and he falls in love with her. She marries him. That settles nothing. The doctor insists on maintaining her separate individuality in a separate apartment. He reads her X-rays, she scans photos of his old loves, and Mother Nature triumphs in time for the final fadeout...
McNeill, who has won not a single tournament this year, has had a wretched season-about the worst for a No. 1 ranker since John Hope Doeg's memorable fadeout ten years ago. His game is more effective on grass than on clay, and he has been playing on clay. But his shots had been going badly and his confidence was shaken. He had no alibi last week. Parker, onetime protege of Coach Mercer Beasley, who comes up every year with a "remodeled" forehand, had an alibi. He likes clay better than turf; his mechanical style thrives...