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Lady Be Good (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the name of a U.S. musicomedy which Prime Minister Winston Churchill recalls with considerable pleasure. It is also the title of the hit song of the show-a 1924 Broadway show that had everything: music (some of his best) by George Gershwin; lyrics by his brother Ira; book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson; and the dancing Astaires (Fred and Adele...
What Nye thought of the movies was no secret. He had publicly accused the companies of trying to make the U.S. "punch-drunk with propaganda to push her into war." He had accused Jewish and foreign-born producers-Louis B. Mayer, Adolph Zukor, Darryl Zanuck, Sam Goldwyn, Murray Silverstone and others-emotionally agitated by Hitler, of being responsible. Said he: primarily responsible for movie war propaganda were "four names, each that of one of the Jewish faith, each one foreign-born." Yet he denied that he was antiSemitic, said "I remain, as yet at least, bitterly opposed to the injection...
Pioneer Equipment (Samuel Goldwyn) is a simple explanation of how to tie various hitches (mooring, rolling, cats-paw, half, etc.) for building pontoon bridges, moving materiel, securing tents. Best feature is the clarity of its explanations and the crafty way the camera has of keeping clearly focused on the role played by the rope...
Whistling in the Dark (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is not the funniest picture out of Hollywood. But it has enough effective low comedy to ease M.G.M.'s brand-new cinecomic down the ways without swamping him. This newest addition to Hollywood's fast-growing flotilla of former burlesque comedians is a bristly, uninhibited, redheaded young man named Red Skelton, who looks and acts not unlike Comedian Bob Hope...
...Little Foxes (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is a blue-ribbon adaptation of Playwright Lillian Hellman's and Producer Herman Shumlin's bitter Broadway drama of a rapacious Southern family hell-bent for power and money at the turn of the century. If it consists of too much photographed talk, too little movement, that is Hollywood's error for trying to film stage plays instead of designing stories for the camera's rangier talents...