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Saratoga (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), written by Anita Loos & Robert Hopkins, is possibly Jean Harlow's best picture as well as her last. Glib, forthright, knowing and adroit, released last week to coincide with the opening of the 1937 season at New York's old spa, it investigates the lighter side of the serious sport of horse racing with as much good sense as good humor...
Movie Producer Samuel Goldwyn announced this week that he had "hired" Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt to write movie ads for Stella Dallas, a Goldwyn picture soon to be released...
...stole into the fanciest record albums in the U. S. Fox paid Gershwin $100,000 to write music for the cinema Delicious. He wrote the score for the Astaire-Ginger Rogers picture, Shall We Dance (TIME, May 10). He was working on the sixth of nine songs for the Goldwyn Follies when he died...
...roles as great as any they ever played. Outstanding scenes: McLaglen getting washed for breakfast, drilling a squad, teaching boxing, playing dolls, dying in the infirmary; the attack on the arsenal; the Afghans laughing at Shirley; Old Boots going to Khoda Khan. The Emperor's Candlesticks (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is as blythe a pre-War romance as the Baroness Orczy, from whose book it was adapted, could wish. Rival spies, the Polish Baron Stephan Wolensky (William Powell) and the Russian Countess Olga Mironova (Luise Rainer), are entrusted with a pair of Louis XV candlesticks to be lugged from Vienna...
...more copies of recent U. S. magazine hits. One was Coronet-sized, Esquire-angled Lilliput, "The Pocket Magazine for everyone." The other was a frank imitation of the New Yorker christened Night and Day. Both were printed on smooth paper, sold for sixpence (12?). Lilliput contains ten articles (Sam Goldwyn, Upton Sinclair), ten stories (Liam 0'Flaherty, Sacha Guitry), ten cartoons ("I think there's been a mistake, you've sent a gout up to maternity"), 40 photographs (John D. Rockefeller Sr., nudes, still life, Mussolini holding his nose), seven color plates (Hogarth's The Graham...