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This Saturday some 30 thirty-footers (and over) will answer the gun for this year's tussle with Lake Michigan's temperamental airs. Many an old reliable will be missing. But inland sailors will get a squint at four formidable newcomers recently purchased in the East: Falcon, last of the famed Marblehead Q Boats; Barquita and Gentian, a pair of New York 32s; and Onaway, designed by famed Designers Sparkman & Stephens...
Major Valentina Grizodubova, 31, is a she-falcon of the Red Air Force. She has a son five years old, nicknamed "Little Falcon." She is pretty, she is dark and she has dimples. She is also dangerous in a military sense, and so, by her account, are her feminine colleagues...
Though Humphrey Bogart's picture is not as good as "The Maltese Falcon," which it would be very hard to equal, it's definitely a first-class fifth-column picture, and well worth a trip into Boston. Mr. Bogart has at last found his place in movies. The part of a hard-boiled Broadway guy fits him perfectly, and Warner Brothers, who are not usually slow to recognize a good thing when they have it, would do well to keep him in parts like this, instead of making him a bloodthirsty gangster whom everybody is supposed to hate...
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon ($7.50), Rebecca West's two-volume, 1,200-page philosophic travelogue about Yugoslavia...
...confusing, but "Maltese Falcon" is one of the most exciting pictures that's come out of Hollywood in years. Add Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, add a superb job on photography, whether it's heightening the tension of a midnight phone-call, or vivifying the nickname of "The Fat Man," and you have a nearly perfect thriller. It is marred only by the ending. We may be grateful for the absence of sentimentality, but even a detective's romance should not meet so brusque a fate...