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Among those who attended the Washington premiere of the movie Never Wave at a WAC was General of the Army Omar Bradley, who plays the part of himself in the picture. Said Bit-Player Bradley after the show: "I'm not an expert, but they tell me I looked natural...
...Willful Murder." In Tokyo last week a U.S. Army court-martial, headed by a major general and including a WAC lieutenant colonel, heard the prosecution accuse Dorothy Smith of "willful and premeditated murder." Shigeko Tani, her Japanese maid, testified that she found the colonel bleeding to death in bed and Mrs. Smith, in bra and panties, clutching a bloody, ten-inch-long hunting knife. A neighbor, Lieut. Colonel Joseph S. Hardin, found the defendant sitting alongside her dying husband, trying to light two cigarettes at once. She blurted out: "I'm sorry I didn...
Never Wave at a WAC (Independent Artists; RKO Radio) suggests that the ladies of the Women's Army Corps, like the Northwest Mounties, always get their man. The heroines of this romantic recruiting poster are a spoiled Washington hostess (Rosalind Russell) and a stripteaser named Danger O'Dowd (Marie Wilson). Enlistment in the WAC does both of them good. Haughty Rosalind Russell becomes simple and sincere and is reunited with her ex-husband (Paul Douglas). The stripteaser finds true love with a quartermaster sergeant (Leif Erickson...
Besides romance, Never Wave at a WAC offers some wacky comedy. The society girl is assigned as a guinea pig to rigorous tests of arctic uniforms supervised by her ex-husband. The not-too-bright stripteaser, who wants to be a Mata Hari, finally gets a job as a chauffeur for intelligence...
Because many of the scenes were photographed at the WAC Training Center in Fort Lee, Va., the movie is generally diverting. But at times the proceedings are somewhat less than sprightly, e.g., Textile Expert Douglas commenting patriotically on the stripteaser's engagement: "It's unions like this that keep our Union in business...