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Throughout the war, millions of blood donors faithfully kept their appointments, rain or shine, sick or well, drunk or sober.* Many of them now wonder when, and if, they will be called on to give blood again. Won't civilians, at least, still need blood...
...fisted, honest Tony the Angel (George Raft). His devoted, carrot-topped singer Sally (Vivian Blaine) warbles her way through a series of top-notch new musical numbers, sweetened with the soft-shoe rhythms and barbershop harmonies of the period. But even such authentic musical backdrops as Moonlight Bay and Shine On, Harvest Moon, tinkled on pianolas or wheezed through the gaping morning-glory horns of pristine phonographs, are powerless to give conviction or pathos to the story of loyal Sally's heartbreak or Angel Raft's dalliance with the snobbish Nob Hill hussy, Harriet Carruthers (Joan Ben-nett...
...nearly two months, the Varsity has been operating on a seven-day-a-week, rain-or-shine practice schedule and through special permission from the H.A.A., has been able to work out late in the afternoon toward twilight...
Science has at last produced a waterproof match which lights when wet. For a year and a half, it has been a military secret. Last week military censors let the light shine forth...
...this is more of a loss than a gain ; for Miss Barrymore's incorrigible abilities as an enchantress, however inappropriate to the role, were practically all that made the play shine. Moreover, Miss Davis is not old enough, as Miss Barrymore was, to keep every hint of boy-meets-girl out of the teacher's moving relationship with the uncouth young miner who is her star pupil. Newcomer John Dall, as the miner, cares a lot for his role, but he is too urban and smooth to convey much power through it, once he gets the coal dust...