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Later the Ranee, clad in a thick grey wool skirt and a sand-colored velour tunic, sipped gin from a Venetian goblet in her tiny, cramped studio, told what the Raja's cession was all about. "My daughters," she beamed, indicating a row of family portraits on the mantelpiece. "That's really why. We've got three gorgeous daughters (thank God for them) but no son, though God knows we've tried hard enough...
...Caesar. This otherwise routine little wartime musicomedy is about life & love in the U.S. Coast Guard-i.e., another late-arriving salute to the services, featuring singing Tar Alfred Drake, dancing Tar Marc Platt and Cinemactress Janet Blair, who is pretty and Spar-slim in a seagoing blouse and skirt. The upshot of the whole thing is predictable until Tar Sid Caesar, a product of Yonkers and the City of New York, lets loose with the most overwhelming spate of gobbledygook since the Johnstown Flood. He may possibly have caught the act of another fast doubletalker named Danny Kaye...
...galloping excitement of the real thing. The kiddies won't find it as much fun as their elders will. The picture's chief excitement is Yvonne (Salome, Where She Danced) de Carlo, a vigorous, shapely actress who looks equally luscious in sequins or a fringed doeskin skirt. Minor causes of excitement: horse-chases, barroom brawls, shootings, knife-throwing and a baby teetering over a precipice at the end of a fallen tree. Frontier Gal oversteps the bounds of conventional horse-opera morality by including a kissing marathon and several rough-&-tumble bedroom scenes...
...came a mild-looking Oriental dressed in a Chinese gown. Suddenly a Chinese woman rose from a table, screamed: "That man! He's not Chinese-he's a Jap! He burned me at the Bridge House!" (headquarters of the notorious Kempeitai, the Japanese Gestapo). She lifted her skirt to show ugly scars across her thighs. In the confusion, the mild-looking man vanished...
Having hidden behind a woman's skirt since August, 1943,--it merged with the Pembroke Record seven months after suspending publication in January of that year--the Dally Herald is back in its old ten-point format. But while it calls itself "Dally," it appears only once a week...