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Angeled by London's rich, young Allen Lane, publisher of Penguin Books, Transatlantic is to have three continuing features: 1) a Crowther commentary on what is going on in the U.S.; 2) a Washington letter by the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond; 3) "incidental notes on the state of the States" by U.S. Critic Carl Van Doren. The rest (save the advertising at ?75 a page) is and will be an all-American contribution. The U.S. editorial staff is a "steering committee" headed by Author Margaret Leech (Reveille in Washington...
...just that by whipping together 1) Latin America (Cesar Romero, Carmen Miranda and her band), 2) the U.S. (Betty Grable, John Payne, Harry James and his band), 3) Canada (large Technicolor hunks of Lake Louise, where the action takes place). The addition of an Eskimo and a penguin would have made the show still more hemispheric in scope, but Springtime in the Rockies, though it had its moments, is something...
This version has Madeleine Carroll thrown together with Bob Hope in a dash across the country, with the usual assortment of stock Nazi heavies after them. Hope wants none of this-he just wants to get to Hollywood with his penguin Percy-but the director manages to keep them together without the old standby of handcuffing them. If the chase motif seems a somewhat contrived means of doing this, it doesn't detract much from the picture because Hope keeps up a steady patter of wisecracks and facial expressions which make the action incidental...
Madeleine is a British spy trying to smuggle a brooch-full of vital statistics from New York City to Los Angeles. Hope is the lesser half of a three-a-day penguin roller-skating act. They meet when Madeleine chooses his dressing room for a hideout from pursuing Nazis. They get out for Hollywood together by Pullman after she has bussed him once and Percy, the penguin, has been signed for pictures...
Hope's hot & cold gaggery goes on agreeably all the way across the continent. Blonde Miss Carroll, who can act when she has to, makes a good thing out of a role which could have been adequately routine. Percy the penguin wins the pantomime honors hands down. His best scene: waddling down a Pullman aisle in his striped pajamas and matching nightcap, hot after a herring...