Show row Senator Goes Hollywood t By y Ham Park I Gary Cary Cooper and Walter Brennan compete for acting honors in The The I Westerner with Brennan winning in I my opinion He lie has to act being a I character man in order to hold n a job while Cooper merely has to be bo h him him- self m I I The Westerner isn't n a bad picture 1 I. I if iC if you like e horse operas And if iC I you ou dont don't like them youre you're out of oC I luck because every studio has one or I I more on tap This particular opus j deals with the war between the Texas Tex Tex- I as cattlemen and the homesteaders Im I'm glad I didn't live in those days days days- the they couldn't have been ver very good I dont don't mind double features when they're both good but when a program program program pro pro- gram like e The Lady with Red Hair and East of oC the River is foisted on me well wellI we welt f- f I feel differently It Isn't always convenient for me to catch a picture at a certain time or I might oe able to miss some of the bad ones But as luck would have it I dropped j jin I in Just In time to get all of oC East of I Ithe the River Now there is an egg that thatis is an egg In fact Id I'd call is a Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese egg because they are me said to be pretty awful Anyway I didn't see see i ian an any of The Lady with Red Hair so soI I dont don't know whether it is good or bad After the John Garfield thing my perceptions were ere so dulled that I probably w would uld have been able to judge consistently if I had seen it 1 All that I wanted to do was t to get out in the fresh air and forget I dont don't know how you feel about it but I am getting a little tired of or the I dead pan school of acting Ive I've had I about all that I can stand of the I George Raft Humphrey Bogart and John Garfield type of or bad There man I must be another kind of villian Of or course there is is- is theres there's the kind Walter Brennan The Wes Wes- Ves I terner Oh hes he's a tough customer and should have been hanged but I you feel a sort of oC sneaking sympathy sympathy sympathy thy for Cor him because of his hopeless passion for or the thc English Lily I Langtry I However theres there's always something I to be thankful for I hear that Dead I End Kids have been disbanded I 1 I read Dorothy Thompsons Thompson's hysterIcal hysterical hysterical hyster hyster- I ical outburst against Walt Valt Disney's I I Fantasia but it lef leC me cold as does most of oC her writing I much preferred Harry larry Evans Evan's review in his little giveaway giveaway give- give away way sheet The Family Circle Because Because Be- Be cause ause Evans who is an old time theatrical theatrical the- the I critic has forgotten more moc more about bout show business than Miss Thompson Tho Tho-I could possibly while while I haven't seen the picture the thing I heard that made me snort with disgust dis- dis 1 gust was the statement that Disney's interpretation of oC certain classical music music mu- mu muI I sic ic was an example of oC the Nazi method method meth- meth methi i od d of destroying our civilization Now can you beat that I dont don't suppose there is much chance of getting Paul Gillico's Hiram Holli- Holli Holliday day stories on the screen Hollywood Hollywoods is s too jittery about propaganda It is claimed In some circles that people just wont patronize was pictures Nuts Wasn't Gone the Wind Vind a war picture And the Howards of oC Virginia Why must musi a picture dealing dealing deal- deal I ing ng with the present struggle be called called called call call- ed propaganda and one like Howard of Virginia which puts the British in n a bad light be acceptable Senator Wheeler says that the new reels are making people war mind ed Again I say NUTS I saw a film called scorched Earth It was wasa a collection of oC motion pictures taken of oC the war between Japan and China It did anything but make me war minded It showed none of oC the alleged alleg alleg- ed and glory of war and all of the horror filth and depredation is said to he be striving to produce comedies with belly laughs reminiscent of the old Mack 1 Sennett days The first flop recorded so farIs far faris faris is the Jack Fred Benny-Fred Allen show Love Thy Neighbor Even Rochester failed to live up to ever ever I t wish them success success- we need laughs bad |