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Nobody has ever played the game of U.S. concert management with a shrewder gambler's eye than pudgy, Russian-born Sol Hurok of Manhattan. Last week Hurok gambled $120,000 on one of the longest and prettiest shots of his career. She was a pert, dark-haired, 18-year-old coloratura soprano named Patrice Munsel. For his $120,000, Hurok got the rights to Patrice's concert and radio appearances for three years. On an operatic filly who has not yet run her maiden race, that was tall betting...
High Stakes. Despite its huge loot, Germany has been unable to assemble adequate basic reserves. The nation has been like a gambler in an increasingly steep game, winning big sums yet compelled to throw it all back in, to meet the relentless doubling by the other players...
...They might indicate the Red Army's strength, its future victories, even Stalin's political demands. Yet, to get to the answers, one must cut through many layers of claims and counterclaims, of secrecy and propaganda. Hitler himself hinders clear answers, for he is an opportunist, a gambler, an intuitive strategist who does not plan far ahead...
...Lucky (RKO-Radio) is a gambler (Mr. Cary Grant) who dodges the draft and helps out with war relief in the shameless course of melting down an ice-cube heiress (Laraine Day) into giving him a gambling concession at a relief ball. Lucky's war-relief plan is simple: to cheat Manhattan's social heavy cream out of its white ties and rhinestones. But as time wears on, Gambler Grant, who is of Greek extraction, develops a tender conscience as a result of the courage of his compatriots and his love for eager Heiress Day. So he heroically...
...doesn't take any startling deduction to predict the whole plot of this movie 15 minutes after it has begun. It's the same old flimsy cliche having for its well-worn theme the reform of a draft-dodging gambler by a pretty little Max Factor creation. Of course, all the bad men, recalcitrant grandfathers who get indignant about the family honor, and bungling detectives are part of the trappings...