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Being a play depending largely on individual situations rather than on characterization or plot, "Brother Rat" does not surprise one by not calling for great acting performances. Nor does, it have them. Not comparing too favorably--with the stage version, probably due in part to the exclusion of the balder parts, it has surges of comedy mixed with surges of melodrama. It deals with attempts to conceal a wife and baby while at V. M. I., to conceal a women in one's room, and to conceal the fact of being out after hours. Wayne Morris as Billy Randolph manages...
...upon the state and local appointive power, the Board is instructed to direct its attention to the proper enforcement of the law." Thus the Board will have more and more to do with each unit of government listed under the social security program run by experts and this is "rat poison for the machine...
...friends to recite his poetry over the telephone. Impudent, he has mercilessly ridiculed the ideas of his superior, Chicago's metaphysical young President Robert Maynard Hutchins, made sport of his colleagues in the Legislature by speaking in allegories, in one of which Boss Kelly figured as a rat, Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman Bundesen as a mosquito. When an opponent praised him for his eloquence, he retorted: "Just liquid vowels." Ambitious, he won a big radio audience outside Illinois when his 1936 Roosevelt talks proved so successful that he was put on a national network. Smith on Smith...
Loew's State and Orpheum have bullet-jawed Edward G. Robinson in "I Am the Law", one of a series of current pictures revolving about the career of Prosecutor Thomas Dewey. Relief of a sort to the rat-tat-tat of the Robinson film is provided by Joe E. Brown in the co-feature, "The Gladiator", which also includes Main Mountain Dean...
...many beatings, humiliations, neuroses, pathetic romanticizing, venereal disease and terror, gradually reaches a mental state indistinguishable from his delirium tremens when drunk. The crew use him as a butt, let up on him slightly when he is half dead. Once they find a substitute outlet in a fantastic rat-hunt-the high point of Sandemose's grotesque humor...