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With appropriate complications, the story meanders on to its predestined end, with the help of a suicide, a hunting accident, a hidden cache of Confederate dollars, a gallant gesture by Yankee Williams. Tedious at times, Virginia at its worst is made bearable by luscious Technicolor shots of Madeleine Carroll and Virginia's red-clay country. For cinemaddicts who adore child actresses, Virginia makes the most of four-year-old Carolyn Lee. After Honeymoon in Bali (also with Carroll & MacMurray) Carolyn's steel executive father took her home to Martins Ferry, Ohio, was persuaded by Director Griffith to give...
Four Mothers (Warner Bros.) momentarily subordinates the maternity marathon of the four luscious Lemp sisters (Rosemary, Priscilla, Lola Lane & Gale Page) to the vicissitudes of their husbands (Eddie Albert, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank McHugh, Dick Foran) and music master father (Claude Rains). Husband Lynn is about to write the great American symphony. Husband Albert is about to discover a germ. But since Husband McHugh has lost all the neighbors' savings when a Florida hurricane hits his real estate, the Lemps spend most of Four Mothers paying back...
...charm, a sweet Irish tenor, a catlike dancing grace that makes vice almost as appealing as virtue. This impression is confirmed by Vivienne Segal as the loose Chicagoenne. More opulent than she used to be in the Ziegfeld Follies, in Helene Pons's svelte costumes she is a luscious miracle of corsetry...
...Panama locale, lusciously tinted by Designer Raoul Pène du Bois, who has also clothed a luscious chorus line in just the right places, gives Cole Porter a chance to indulge his talent for Latin-American rhythms (previous examples: Begin the Beguine, I Get A Kick Out of You}. The Porterian lyric wit is displayed in a trio and quintet titled, respectively, God Bless the Women and You Said It. The tune that seems likely to prove most durable is Panama Hattie's response, in rumba rhythm, to temporary disappointment in love: "Make it another oldfashioned, please...
Gift to Vienna. To replace Gauleiter Bürckel in Vienna, where a section of the famed Ringstrasse was last week renamed "Josef Bürckel Ring," Hitler selected a particularly luscious cherry from his political pie-poetic, youth-loving Baldur von Schirach, who last September publicly begged his Führer's permission to leave his job as Reich Youth Leader to help blitzkrieg France, returned last month with an Iron Cross and lieutenancy...