Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-06-09 | Page 8 | Girls Bashing Males New Movie Trend

Girls Bashing Males New Movie Trend I By JOh JOHN JOIL N TODD T r HOLLYWOOD INS With women beginning to take over a bigger part In the war var effort 1 it Isn't surprising to find the movies movie are going still farther and allowing allowing allow allow- ing lug dames to go around bashin bashing the male of the species on a bigger bigge and better scale than ever before A poignant example of o-f this trend is pretty Betty Rhodes who wh plays the role of a woman welder welde in a new aircraft musical titled title Priorities of 1943 Betty Socks Jo Johnnie Betty socks Johnnie Johnston In Inthe Inthe the eye exactly one second after meeting him in an airplane fac fac- tory He trips over an electric cord card interrupting her work with witha a welding torch and she doesn't like it Further along in the same film Betty breaks a flower vase ase over poor Johnnies Johnnie's head as the result resul of a very cry very ery manly temper for fora a woman Ginger Rogers knocks a lad for fora forn a n loop when he tries to kiss her herin herin herin in The Major and the Minor In My Favorite Blonde Bob Hope and Madeleine Carroll put on a great melee They were high up in a hotel unable to leave by bythe bythe bythe the door because of assailants who are waiting for them In the hall So they faked a scrap hoping to get the pollee police summoned by irate neighbors As expected Hope Hop got the worst of ot the act act- His favorite blonde wielded quite a haymaker was vas pretty efficient at scratching and hair pulling hair pulling and hit the bullseye almost every time In this this- particular particular particular par par- case the bullseye is Bobs Bob's dome and it came in contact with chairs tables lamps vases and everything else In the range of Madeleine's hands I Paulette Paillette Bashes Dashes Three Paulette Goddard jumped into a fight on shipboard in Reap the Wild Wind when her buddies Ray Milland and John Wayne weren't doing so well in the brawl With Witha a heavy piece of wood she knocked out three men who were trying to kidnap the three of them