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...With Wings (Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, Louise Campbell; TIME, Nov.7...
...With Wings (Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, Louise Campbell; TIME...
...conventional triangle plot. When Pat Falconer, Scott Barnes and Peggy Ranson are moppets, sailing kites in imitation of the airship Peggy's inventor father is trying to rig up in his workshop, the device succeeds brilliantly. By the time the children have grown up into Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland and Louise Campbell, the narration of their story seems a tediously oblique fashion of presenting material which would make almost any purely personal romance seem drab by comparison. Net result is proof that the cinema, less complete as an art than aeronautics as a science, has not in its parallel...
Sing You Sinners (Paramount) combines the Sentimental Family plot (see col. 2) with the Crooked Horse Race plot -perhaps an influence of the double feature. The Beebe family is distinguished from most cinema families by the fact that one member of it (Fred MacMurray) works. Joe Beebe (Bing Crosby) does not work, not having the knack. He is idle and lazy, with no thrift, energy or regard for the value of money; he drinks, philanders, plays the horses, comes to an only temporary good end. When Mrs. Beebe (Elizabeth Patterson) persuades him to give up the trade of horse racing...
...Metropolitan's current bill, courtesy of Paramount, blends a musical and a drama into a thoroughly interesting program. "Cocoanut Grove" deals with the difficulties of a band-leader (Fred MacMurray) in getting a mate for himself and a job for the boys. The latter is taken care of when he lands in the Grove--an inaccurate replica of the Ambassador's famous ballroom--and the former when he wins the hand of Harriet Hilliard. A plot like this calls for strong support, and this is not lacking. Eve Arden and Ben Blue do an excellent burlesque of ballroom dancing...