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Died. John Morgan ("Rags") Ragland, 40, onetime truck driver and burlesque gagster who hit the big time in Broadway's Panama Hattie, became filmdom's genial portrayer of comic morons (Du Barry Was a Lady, Anchors Aweigh, Her Highness and the Bellboy); of uremic poisoning; in Hollywood...
Watch Those Lights! Many of filmdom's best people look down their snobbish noses at the Warners. The brothers are widely regarded as inartistic penny-pinchers. Their detractors claim that the Warners never buy a story if they can remake an old one or snatch a plot out of the newspapers. They discourage fussy, expensive retakes. They frown on temperament in anyone but themselves. As President Harry once said: "Listen, a picture, all it is is an expensive dream. Well, it's just as easy to dream...
...minds of her three flying wolves as No. 1 target for tonight, tragedy skulks behind the scenes. The gayest rake of the lot (Robert Cummings, an Army flyer in fact as well as fancy) is doomed to die from one of those mysteriously incurable diseases which in filmdom carry off their perfectly healthy victims with stopwatch accuracy at curtain time. Ivy's inevitable wedding steeps all four principals in a maudlin effusion of unspoken nobility aimed at sending the audience out with a lump instead of a laugh in its throat...
...week allowances from their fabulous father Lewis, bankrupt jeweler who during the '20s ran a shoestring up to the $23,000,000 Select Pictures Corp. The brothers later made their own film fortune, separated in 1929 when Myron began his rise to key power as filmdom's No. 1 talent-broker...
...Spitfires fighting German Messerschmidts; we see two thousand horse power bombers with three ton bombs tucked away in their bellies; we see a frightening, new version of "Hell's Angels." All this runs throughout the picture. Then, to top it off,--the lemon peel on the cocktail of filmdom--there is a Commando raid on a German airfield. Instead of cowboys, you have grim-faced soldiers dressed in black from head to foot; instead of wild western ponics and twirling six-shooters, you have tanks, motorcycles, hand grenades, sub-machine guns...