Show Senator Goes Hollywood By Ham Park While boy meets girl is still the piece piece- de- de resistance In most movie plots the mode of procedure differs in some Instances For example in Las Vegas Nights Phil Regan meets Constance Moore a perfect stranger in compliance with the old gambling superstition of kiss kissa a pretty stranger and change your luck lIe He just walks up to her and kisses her before she knows what Is going on In Comrade X Clark Gable meets Hedy Lamarr when he spots her workIng workIng working work- work ing on a street car He just boards the street car and starts a conversa conversa- tion At the end of the line they have reached the kissing stage Claudette Colbert posed as Ray flay MIlland's Milland's Milland's Mil- Mil lands land's wife to rescue him from a Spanish firing squad in Arise My Love He had never seen her until he was summoned to the Spanish office and notified I that his wife had saved his life Ufe I Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour have I an odd meeting in Caught in the Draft It come about when Miss Lamour Lamour La Ln- mour daughter of or an army colonel visits a motion picture studio There I she he sees Hope playing the role of a I movie star working in a war picture The meeting is none too auspicious Hope mistakes her father for one of the extras Fred MacMurray in caught in an air raid in London in One Night in Lis Lis- Lis- Lis bon MacMurray goes to a bomb I shelter sees Madeleine Carroll there alone and starts making love to her In The Lady Eve Henry Fonda Fonda meets Barbara when she bounces an nn apple off oc his head and ond then trips him The same old story with a different approach that's that all One of the greatest treats I have had in many years was seeing the Lunts in There Shall Be No Night I hope that It is made into a movie I quickly because its message would reach a far greater audience Besides I it will make an even better motion picture than it does a stage play It I Imay may be that the stark tragedy of the I piece frightens Hollywood producers I who seem to want nothing but sweetness sweetness sweetness sweet sweet- ness and light portray portrayed d on the screen The story deal deau with the Russian in invasion invasion In- In valton of little Finland and I recommend recommend recommend mend it to everyone and particularly to those thole who subscribe to the views view of Senator Wheeler and Co Col Lindbergh Th The other morning I dropped everything everything every every- everY I thing and the Missus and I went down downto I Ito to see Ie a preview of Topper Topp Returns Its It's a Whodunit with a farcical twist I in which Joan Blondell is murdered I mysteriously and her ghost in getting Topper Roland Young to assist assist assist as as- in exposing the murderer Eddie Rochester Anderson as Toppers Topper's chauffeur steals the picture His antics antics antics an an- tics are hilariously funny I rather enjoyed Errol Flynn in Footsteps in the Dark Its It's also a n whodunit treated humorously Its It's good entertainment and wont tax your thinking apparatus or your e- e motions Speaking of Errol Flynn Jim Fleming Fleming Flem Flem- j ing his stand-in stand for the past four years made his screen debut in Warner Warner War War- war war-I ner Bros The Nurses Nurse's Secret He I portrayed a corpse Nearly six years ears ago Flynn made his screen debut as a corpse in The Case of the Curious Bride Fleming hopes that his new career will vill parallel Flynns Flynn's success Flight from Destiny is a n good pic pic- pic ture Anything Thomas Mitchell appears appears appears ap ap- ap- ap pears in is usually good Hes He's too expensive expensive expensive ex ex- pensive to waste on mediocre films so the producers try to find something suiting his great grent talents Flight from Destiny deals with a college professor profess profess- or doomed to die In a n few months from a heart ailment who plans and commits a murder he deems beneficial to society Its It's well worth seeing |