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Those who liked "Brother Rat" will probably not mind its sequel. When the new picture starts, a few acute angles have been straightened out: everybody has graduated, and Commencement, a slightly illegitimate baby which--or who--while still unborn, caused a lot of trouble in the last installment, is now thoroughly Haysed. Mature for his age, Commencement burns the house down and manages to end up in Lima as a gift to the Peruvian Government...
...other rats, Wayne Morris and Ronald Reagan, continue their campaign to capture Priscilla Lane and Jane Wyman. Though they don't quite succeed, they enjoy themselves thoroughly. In fact everybody has a fine time except the Mongoose, a snaky rat who gets pushed around because his technique is bad. The threat of a sequel to the sequel, presumably called "Brother Rat and Two Babies," looms unpleasantly as the "plot" (replete with faked telegrams, wrecked Rolls Royces, and Stradivarii) reaches its involved conclusion...
...Association of Saks Thirty-Fourth Street, Manhattan department store, gave four judges-Publisher Wilfred Funk, Actress Helen Hayes's mother Catherine Hayes Brown, Singer Lanny Ross, Quizzer Craig ("Professor Quiz") Earl-the task of choosing a word to replace "mother-in-law." Several hundred entries, including Motherette, Mother Rat, Ersatz Mother, Blitzkrieg Mother, Mother-link, were discarded in favor of "Kin-Mother." Commented Lexicographer Funk: "These synthetic words . . . seldom catch on." "Kin-Mother" did not catch on in Amarillo, Tex., where next day Kin-Mother Mrs. L. O. Thompson, first president of the National Mother-in-Law Club, carried...
...kindly, jealous Hugo Matuschek, Frank Morgan (who has a flair for Central European roles) turns in his best perform ance since he was Diana Wynyard's husband in Reunion in Vienna. William Tracy (the much hazed plebe of Brother Rat} is the typically brassy errand boy who, after saving his boss from suicide, badgers him into making his rescuer a clerk. James Stewart walks through the amiable busi ness of being James Stewart. Joseph Schildkraut, as usual in a minor part, as 'usual acts rings around everybody else...
...Brother Rat and a Baby (Warner Bros.) should prove embarrassing to Virginia Military Institute as the graduates from Brother Rat, Bing Edwards (Eddie Albert), Billy Randolph (Wayne Morris), Dan Crawford (Ronald Reagan), project their prankish adolescence into extramural life. In the absence of one Mr. Harper they move into his apartment, smash a priceless ship model, pilfer and pawn an invaluable Stradivarius, appropriate $200 Harper has left in Bing's care, finally burn up the apartment, for which Bing has forgotten to mail the insurance policy. "Anyway," says one prankster, "Mr. Harper still has his life." It is distinctly...