Show Senator Goes Hollywood By Ham Park The he war In Europe and the National Defense program are me having some In Interesting Interesting ln- ln effects upon the sort of movIes movies movies ies you'll be seeing this year You'll be seeing more musicals more westerns more comedies and a n lot of oC pictures that have to do with soldiering and World War Var II You'll be seeing too more pictures with a South American American American Amer Amer- ican locale this year than thon the most In Indefatigable Indefatigable indefatigable In- In movie fan tan has seen In his whole life before There will be fewer praise dramas and a special special special spec spec- ial dearth of oC those pictures featuring what producers call realism The movies are going escapist in a big wa way I And the quality of oC the films Is expected expected expected ex ex- to be Improved Under an agreement agreement agreement a- a between the government and producers pictures after aCter August 1 will be sold on a more competitive basis In order to obtain maximum distribution o of his films a producer will have to make not only a good picture but one that is better than the opposition can provide This is an element clement that has heretofore been lacking because o of the booking block-booking evil I Private Private Private In my opinion Andy Hardys Hardy's vate Secretary Is the best yet o of the Hardy Family series Mickey Rooney's Rooneys Rooneys Rooney's Rooneys Rooney's Roon- Roon eys ey's tendency to over-act over is held down downto to a minimum and the picture introduces introduces introduces intro intro- duces a new star Miss Kathryn Gray- Gray son This charming younger player has everything everything- beauty acting abilIty ability ability abil abil- ity and a marvelous singing voice Republic Pictures until recently one oneo o of the Poverty Row independent producing companies has blossomed out In an extravagant musical called Sis Hopkins and starring Judy Can Can- ova There is little to remind one o of the bucolic humor that marked the original stage play but humor like everything everything everything ev ev- else changes and wed we'd probably probably probably ably consider the quips and jokes o of the early very unfunny anyway anyway any any- way However the antics of oC the star I who is ably assisted by Jerry Colonna and Charles Butterworth leave little littleto to be desired In the field o of rough and ready comedy Bob Crosby and his orchestra are also featured Bob Is no great shake as an actor but in his crooning one recognizes Bing Crosby Influence Maybe Its It's an inherited inherited inherited in in- family trait like the Hapsburg ln mug that peculiar mooing to music I know And speaking of Bing dont don't pass up The Road to Zanzibar You c probably been on the road to somewhere somewhere somewhere some some- where or other with Bing Crosby Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour before beCore and i If you enjoyed the trip then you will wUl enjoy this one too Dorothy Is less irritating than usual What a astar astar astar star that would have been in the silent days I haven't commented on The Strawberry Strawberry Strawberry Straw Straw- berry Blonde for the reason that it appeared practically everywhere else before it was shown in Salt Lake City and I figured you'd probably seen it But theres there's one thing about that picture that Id I'd like to get straight In my mind Judging by the costumes and manners I took It that the date of the story was sometime in the late or the early And they sang Let the Rest o of the World Go GoBy By I may be wrong but I dont don't think that song was published until after ater the World War It seems to me that somebody In the studios studio's department department department depart depart- ment slipped up I hope to see Citizen Kane one of these days When I was in Hollywood last they were quite perturbed over the action of the Heart interests in re regard regard regard re- re gard to Orson Welles' Welles production It It supposed to be the life lie story of Will 11 am Randolph Hearst and the newspaper tycoon was alleged to have to have everyone connected connected connected con con- with the film rum shot at i if it were exhibited It may have been a publicity stunt stunt stunt- like the kidnapping kidnapping kid kid- napping of the publisher of a certain book dealing watt witt the killing of Hitler |