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...Courtship of Andy Hardy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the twelfth-but not the last-of the Hardy pictures. Like an oldtime serial, the series, which has become M.G.M.'s biggest moneymaker, threatens to go on" forever. As a chronicle of the homey, down-to-middling-good-earth doings of a triumphantly ordinary family in a triumphantly ordinary U.S. town, it is a natural for U.S. moviegoers...
Already the criticism has had its effect. Nicholas Schenk, president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, has announced that Ayres will never get his job back with MGM. And since Metro is a subsidiary of Loew's, Inc., which controls almost half of the country's movie houses, it is not hard to predict that attitude of at least a large proportion of the country's theatre-owners in regard to exhibiting Ayres's films. Moreover, it is probable that what few managers have the courage to show his pictures will meet with a stiff boycott, arising not from spontaneous public opinion...
...Were Dancing (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) apparently happened while everyone at M.G.M. was looking the other way. It is distantly based on some of the nine sketches in Playwright Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30. Sample lines...
Design for Scandal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a libel on the U.S. bench. It exhibits Jurisprudence (tall, dark and handsome Rosalind Russell, a female judge) knuckling under to Cupid (tall, dark and handsome Walter Pidgeon, a reporter). This farcical victory is won by Newsman Pidgeon over Judge Russell after she has awarded his employer's (Edward Arnold) wife so much alimony that he has to earn $18,000 more a month to pay it and has to send Pidgeon to frame the judge, into the bargain. Characteristically, the judge won't admit that she loves the reporter except...
...Smith, American (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the man Hollywood forgot while it was busy glamorizing World War I doughboys. An aircraft factory worker, he is one of the 14 to 20 civilians it takes to keep a modern fighting man in the field. His story is just the kind of propaganda the U.S. would like to have Hollywood make more of. Adult, informative and entertaining, it klieg-lights the new warfare at a most important spot: the armament production line...