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...looking for Akim with a harpoon gun. When Henry's faithful friend George Raft decided to immolate himself to atone for his evil ways, he steered Akim's schooner into the side of a glacier, where it was crunched beneath icebergs like a toy boat in a studio tank. Even more characteristic of Western traditions are Spawn of the North's womenfolk: Louise Platt, the refined, ladylike girl who learns to love the ruggedness of it all, Dorothy Lamour, appearing in a turtleneck sweater instead of a sarong but with the same effect, as a tough tavern...
...start Thingumabob bobbled. He was way back in seventh place at the end of the first sixteenth. Then he began to move up. At the end of the first furlong he was in second place, coming up in an open switch on the inside of Ariel Toy, the pacemaker. Suddenly Ariel Toy closed the switch by cutting towards the rail. Thingumabob reared, then crumpled. His right front ankle had snapped above the fetlock. He limped to the outside fence, fell to his knees, gallantly lifted himself to his feet again as the track veterinarian shot him dead...
Four's A Crowd (Warner Bros.) includes a trunkful of characters now fashionable in screen comedies: a madcap millionaire (Walter Connolly) with a passion for toy trains; his lovely granddaughter (Olivia de Havilland), so bored with mercenary suitors that she longs to meet a man who hates her; a livewire pressagent (Errol Flynn), who organizes a newspaper campaign to destroy the millionaire's good name, hoping thus to get hired to restore it; a dim-witted publisher (Patric Knowles) and his highly intelligent star reporter (Rosalind Russell), who are in love respectively with the heiress and the pressagent...
Loew's State and Orpeheum is still showing "Toy Wife," with Louise Rainer, Melvyn Douglas and Robert Young. Essentially modern actors, they have difficulty in this revival of the Victorian Frou Frou," and the result is not happy...
...Toy Wife (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) makes it clear that, having twice won the Cinema Academy's prize for acting, Luise Rainer has no intention of resting on her laurels. Eyes brimming, lips twitching and little voice choked with tears,, she goes all out for a third award, this time in the classic role of a belle of New Orleans. Unfortunately for Miss Rainer's aspirations and the entertainment value of this picture, a great deal of cinema film has run through projection machines since old New Orleans was first presented as the epitome of U. S. historical glamor...