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...Wookey (by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, produced by Edgar Selwyn). Mr. Wookey, a tugboat captain, is a little Cockney who runs his East End family with as much assurance as Winston Churchill runs the British Empire. From the day before Britain enters World War II through the height of last September's great Blitz, he and his family go through blood and tears and low comedy...
...Minnie Hill, TIME'S apologies. Now 78, dignified, charming Mrs. Hill modestly deprecates her pilot past, turns down all radio offers, gets roiled when she is compared with Tugboat Annie. (Beams her proud husband, however: "Minnie, if you had a little more gall, you'd be in the movies.") Says Mrs. Hill of her "ancient history": "I never wore overalls, I wore skirts...
...Tugboat Annie in manner or language, little Captain "Ma" got her orders obeyed without profanity, spent her leisure embroidering and reading in her cabin. She took time out to bear two sons (one of whom died in boyhood), bore another on a steamer held fast in an ice gorge. She brought up the boys in her cabin, slipping easily from singing lullabies to snapping orders to her crew...
...Scenarist-Fictionist Raine (Tugboat Annie), who criticized Eire's refusal to let Britain use Irish ports as illogical and unrealistic, replies thus to Reader O'Malley's question: "NUAIR ITH-EANN NA H-EIRENNAIGH FEOIL DIA H-AOINE, IOSFAD I ACHT NIL AON GOILE AGAM DO MADADH FEOIL." Translation from the Gaelic: "When Catholic Eire eats flesh on Friday, so shall I- but I have a poor stomach for dog meat...
...Tugboat Annie Sails Again (Warner) revives the hardheaded, soft-hearted old salt who, in her Satevepost exploits, bulldozes the boys around Tacoma's water front. Seasoned, frog-voiced Marjorie Rambeau puts on Marie Dressler's costume; villainized, kinky-haired Alan Hale plays the Wallace Beery part of Bullwinkle, Annie's rival. Like all good skates on the screen, Annie builds herself a heap of trouble before she rescues the mortgage and gets the young folks (Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman) together for a happy ending. The result is passable, not irresistible...