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...romantic hokum of Show Boat's well-known story-with its dashing gambler, its deserted young wife who troupes to stardom, its pretty mulatto who tries to "pass"-calls up the color of Mississippi River life, of the 1893 World's Fair, of grimy furnished rooms and glittering music halls. It fetches up a lot of gay, happy dancing, much of it with a period touch of cancans and cakewalks. Only toward the end of the show, when the plot runs down, does the Show Boat revival lose its lure...
Victim's Explanation. Watching her play minor roles in major films like Wilson, major roles in minor films like Shining Victory, discerning cinemaddicts have long been puzzled by Geraldine Fitzgerald's fourth-magnitude stardom...
Last week, on his home track at Malmö, the gangling Swede bounced back to stardom. With arch-rival Arne Andersson as opposition and a heat wave to loosen his muscles, Hägg ran on the ragged edge of the magic four-minute mile. His 4:01.4 was world record time (1.2 seconds better than Andersson's mark made two years ago over the faster Stockholm track...
Died. Gloria Dickson, 27, blond cinemactress who made one long leap from the 1937 Federal Theater Project to Hollywood stardom (They Won't Forget}, then never quite fulfilled the critics' bright hopes; of suffocation when her home was gutted by fire; in Hollywood...
SOME OF THESE DAYS-Sophie Tucker-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Sophie's rise from burlesque "coon singing" to Ziegfeld stardom and Hollywood makes a rowdy and sentimental tale of yesterday's show business...