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...exploiting the war emergency to stir up race issues among Negroes in the services. He called them "reminiscent of Hearst at his worst in their sensationalism, and in their obvious inflammatory bias in the treatment of news." In addition he indicted them for exploiting their own people with sucker ads (Luck's Genuine Magnetic Lodestones, $1, etc.), for scandalous gents' room journalism, for whooping up race antagonism for circulation's sake...
...South'n gennleman from Kentuck'. . . . The turnover of the Crime always made the Vagabond sad, but this was an especially unhappy night. He looked at his watch--4:12, time for a quick session with the pinball boards at Harry's Club. Man against machine, amateur against the elements, sucker against Gottlicb. Vag racked-up four frees on the first try but felt no thrill; he groped his way out and left the board to the vultures who cluster for such a moment...
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (Universal) is not a movie; it is 70 minutes of photographed vaudeville by polypnosed W. C. Fields, assisted by Gloria Jean, Franklin Pangborn and other stage properties. As such, it is strong drink for cinemaddicts who believe that the Great Man can do no wrong, small beer for those who think that even a Fields picture should have a modicum of direction...
...Sucker has no plot and needs none. It is just Fields trying to peddle a scenario to Esoteric Studios. He reads a scene, then plays it. Upshot: a maelstrom of slapstick, song, blackout. episodes, old gags, new gags, confusion. That much of it is truly comic is testimony to the fact that Comedian Fields is one of the funniest men on earth. Whether he is offering a cure for insomnia ("Get plenty of sleep"), refusing a bromo ("couldn't stand the noise"), nasally vocalizing ("chickens have pretty legs in Kansas"), meticulously blowing the head off an ice cream soda...
...round Fields is known to have lost was the production's title: he wanted it called The Great Man. After the present title was selected, the comedian snarled: "What does it matter; they can't get that on a marquee. It will probably boil down to Fields-Sucker...