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...Favorite Spy (Paramount) casts Bob Hope as both a cowardly burlesque comedian and a debonair international spy.^ U.S. security agents persuade the comic to impersonate the spy, pack him off to a Tangier that is teeming with sinister villains (Francis L. Sullivan & Co.) and baited with a beautiful but treacherous lady spy (Hedy Lamarr...
...these heavy mortgages, Hope and his five writers pay a good rate of comic interest: rapid-fire gags, uproarious burleyque bits such as those that enrich Broadway's current Top Banana, and an oldfashioned, helter-skelter movie chase in which Hedy drives a fire truck through old Tangier with Hope perilously clinging to its raised ladder...
Last week, heeding the call of the westering sun and the social season at Nassau, Freddy and Claude boarded their 104-ton auxiliary schooner Kangaroo, in Tangier and set sail for the Bahamas. A strong southwest gale was rising as the vessel rounded Cape Cantin off the Moroccan coast. The wind, heavy laden with desert sand, seized the yacht, drove it inshore and dashed it on the reefs. A surging wave flung a steward overboard to his death. Another knocked Claude's French maid Cecile to the deck. McEvoy's crewmen picked her up and lashed...
...Prince Who Was a Thief (Universal-International) is the kind of frothy, nonalcoholic, Arabian-nights cocktail that Hollywood has shaken up a thousand and one times. Brusque handclaps still bring on the harem dancing girls; Tangier bristles with flashing scimitars, wicked potentates, skulking cutpurses, rococo palaces and phrases...
...planets affect the sun; he merely invites astronomers to build a theory upon his observations. Meanwhile, RCA is using the Nelson prediction system with practical success. Last week Nelson noted that Mars and Mercury were approaching a configuration. Warned of the coming magnetic storm, the RCA relay station at Tangier mobilized extra operators. When the storm arrived as scheduled, the emergency equipment was manned and ready, and the messages went through on schedule...