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...union men gleefully broke a 19-day-old picket line when the Army took over. In the previous three weeks, gangs of vandals had three times invaded Ward stores in Detroit, overturning counters, trampling merchandise, smashing fixtures (see cut). Now, pickets marched away, waving U.S. flags. In Denver, Clerk Vera Jean Perkins, seeing the Army take over, played a record of The Army Made a Man Out of Me, three times over the amplifier system, was peremptorily ordered to stop...
...cyclone struck Mexico's west coast. Another roared up the rainy Gulf, obliterating tropical Tuxtepec, near Vera Cruz. Thousands of refugees took refuge in treetops. Over hundreds of bodies flocks of buzzards wheeled. Banana and corn crops were destroyed...
Next Stokowski stop: Vera Cruz...
...were given a moment to forget that this represents Hollywood's opinion of Hollywood, the show might become enjoyable. W. C. Fields puts on a terrific act, Orson Welles and Marlene Dietrich do a good job in their short act, and Vera Zorina is a lovely lady. But the dialogue can hardly be heard over the steady percussions of the Los Angeles back-slapping machine...
Wriggling through all this dense tedium-laudamus, like a Pekingese lost in a shopping rush, is a story. George Raft, a hoofer, marries Vera Zorina, a dancer. But George can think of nothing but camp shows and Vera can think of nothing except their impending baby (about which she is too miffed to tell him), so they part. Before they can make it up Raft dies, a hero, in the Pacific. His widow becomes the pride...