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...Louis Blues (Paramount) is memorable chiefly for keeping George Raft off the screen and putting Maxine Sullivan's swing rendition of Loch Lomond on it. Raft declined the leading role, that of a Mississippi showboat impresario, because he felt it did not do his talents justice. Paramount promptly suspended him from its pay roll. Miss Sullivan, 4-ft. n-in., gi-lb. Negro soprano, who in 1937 started a craze for gently swung folk tunes, made her Hollywood debut in Going Places last month. In St. Louis Blues, in addition to an excellent rendition of Loch Lomond, she touches...
Since Dorothy Lamour appears in St. Louis Blues, its authors felt obliged to build the suspense around the question of when and how she would get into her inevitable sarong. She does it at night under a hay wagon. Typical shot: Raft's heir to the leading role, Lloyd Nolan, telling Miss Lamour how nice she looks...
Muddle No. 5: While Pan American Airways, which operates the Bermuda run jointly with Imperial, carries four rocket-equipped life rafts on its Bermuda Clipper (total raft capacity: 40 persons), the Cavalier had none. When she began to sink, her eight passengers, her five crew members had to take to the water, hanging to six or seven buoyant seat packs, which had not been issued until after the ship struck. One man passenger, unable to swim, was struck by wreckage as he left the ship, and drowned. A steward, held in the terrified ring where the survivors hung around their...
Scandal. In Bernarr Macfadden's Photoplay appeared an article called Hollywood's Unmarried Husbands and Wives, purporting to "expose" the relationships of couples like Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor, Virginia Pine and George Raft, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, Paulette Goddard and Charlie Chaplin, Constance Bennett and Gilbert Roland. Excerpts: "Barbara freezes homemade ice-cream for Bob from a recipe his mother gave her. . . . Before George and Virginia teamed up as a tight little twosome, George gloried in flashy, extremely-cut clothes. ... No real father could be more infatuated than George with Virginia's five-year...
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault's most famous canvas, The Raft of the Medusa,* was painted in 1819, four years after Waterloo. Géricault belonged to the swank Jockey Club and the swank Bourbon Musketeers instead of to the army of Napoleon. But among 23 of his pictures exhibited last week were several such as The Three Trumpeters (see cut), which showed the gift for color and the clangorous Romantic imagination which made Delacroix mourn his early death: "Poor Géricault, I will think of you very often. I imagine that your...