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...belching crater, splicing a broken power line with uninsulated hands, blowing a sluice in the mountain so that a lava flow will miss the metropolis. There is never any suspense, since Superman always wins, no matter what happens. But his idolators (of all ages) seem satisfied to see him flex his muscles. This vicarious satisfaction has made Superman Paramount's most popular and profitable short, despite the $65,000 it costs to make each cartoon. So popular is the muscular moron that 114 female artists at the Famous studio recently answered a questionnaire asking whether they would prefer Superman...
...impoverished, hence embittered, Hope for a Harvest uses a vigorous, high-spirited woman (Florence Eldridge) who returns home, after 20 years in Europe, to whip her tired kinfolk into action. She succeeds immoderately: not only does her favorite cousin Elliott (well played by Actor March) regain his faith and flex his muscles, but his daughter slides out of a mess with the wrong man into marriage with the right one, and a neighborhood feud blossoms into a very pretty friendship...
...hide the last vestiges of Captain Bligh in Laughton; Carole Lombard works the smell of tomato catsup into her hash-house waitress; William Gargan as the romantic ranch hand is a cad with gusto. Serious students of cinema technique will find many a valuable lesson watching these able craftsmen flex their artistic muscles as they act out the well-told tale of a pragmatic old Latin who would rather possess a pretty wife and baby even though both belonged to another. But the film's talky treatment of the problems of inconstancy does much to prove that movies have...
...mustached artist, Fletcher Martin. A husky onetime sailor and boxer, Martin is largely self-taught. His first oils and water colors, shown in San Diego in 1934, were done in his spare time as a printing pressman. The gobs and prize fighters Fletcher Martin used to sketch still flex their heavy muscles in his canvases; his Trouble in Frisco-sailors slugging, seen through a porthole-is owned by Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...present, said the doctors, the new finger has good color, good circulation. The child cannot flex it completely, but it is gradually growing more limber. And it looks more like a finger every...