Word: reelingly
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...know William Saroyan's philosophy of life. "I love to see people happy; things should be this way all the time," declares the hero of "The Human Comedy," first Saroyanesque venture into the realm of the motion picture. And the author drums away at his simple theme reel after reel, in a film which occasionally reaches heights of emotion and feeling rarely equalled on celluloid, but which descends to the maudlin almost as often...
...good-neighborly, Technicolor whimsey that has made Walt Disney one of South America's favorite North Americans. Shown first in South America, the film broke theater records; one audience in Rio de Janeiro screamed so loudly for an encore that another feature had to be halted in mid-reel and Saludos Amigos run off again...
...chance to view the better offerings of seasons past, and gives the theatre a healthy excuse to get away from the double feature diet. "Kings Row," the feature on the bill tonight, is Warner's adaptation of Henry Bellaman's novel of the frustrated nineties. A suicide per reel in the slower portions, and a neurosis per minute in the more exciting sequences raise the audience to the fast tempo which the picture maintains throughout...
...correspondent Johnny Davis, his kid brother, and their little blonde companion, also a newspaper worker, who takes turns in engaging herself with the Davis boys in all sort of friendly positions. The scene moves from New York to Hanoi with the greatest of ease, Gable busses Turner in every reel, the Filipinos and Yanks hold off Mr. Moto in an epic struggle, and everybody is happy...
...Supermaniacs, whose wild devotion to their Man of Steel is a wacky U.S. phenomenon, radio had good news last week. They have devoured Superman in the comics, goggled at him in one-reel movies, have even got him on the air. But all they heard were transcribed programs. Now they can hear Superman in person on programs for which Manhattan's WOR foots the bill...