Show Senator Goes Hollywood By Ham Park a Mandle MandIe Hoover of ot draft raft age and colored will not have his screen career career ca ca- reer by army life for awhile yet and hes he's mighty relieved Playing a minor role in Sunny Mandle MandIe got to talking between scenes with leading man John Carroll mentioning mentioning mentioning men men- that his draft number had been called Maybe they'll send you to Georgia to b become come a parachute trooper Carroll said Not me me Mandle MandIe replied I 11 never neverseen been seen up They tell me Carroll continued with a wink at Anna that most of the colored draftees are going going gong go go- ing ng to be made into parachutists They'll put them in black planes give them black parachutes for n i g h t jumps over enemy territory Mandle landle gulped I III got flat feet he 10 pointed out Then youre you're a cinch said Carroll Boys with flat feet make the best landings andings I understand Mandle was pretty quiet the rest of the morning But shortly after lunch he le approached Carroll his face wreathed wreath wreath- ed in smiles No fo me he said How do you know Carroll asked him II Ti T-I T 1 to enlist in in the infantry at noon Mandle MandIe replied happily But they turned me down The man said my feet was too flat even for para- para Walt Valt Disney produced the first sound cartoon the first length full-length animated cartoon the first animated concert and md now with his The Reluctant Dragon he establishes a new type of in which live action and cartoons are blended skillfully thereby thereby thereby there there- by producing one hilarious unit of en en- Walt Valt Disney Robert Benchley and Frances Gifford and scores of beautiful girls and Disney artists join forces with some of the zaniest cartoon characters ever creat creat- ed I saw Holbrook BUin In the stage version of the Bad Man lan about 20 years ago Then I saw him in the silent si- si 1 lent ent film version Both were excellent productions Last week I saw Wallace Vallace Beery inthe inthe in inthe the written re-written modernized Bad Man and a pleasant memory was destroy destroy- ed A more labored and a sillier effort effort effort ef ef- fort to obtain comedy than that ending ending end- end ing ng would be hard to imagine A few more pictures like that and Mr Beery will be on his wa way out if he is not already already already al- al ready on his way Usually on a double bill one of the pictures will at least be possible buton but I Ion on the Bad Man program was When I Thieves Fall Out featuring Eddia Al- Al I AI-I bert Words fail me to to describe that opus I I II I got quite a bit of enjoyment out I of That Night In Rio starring DonAmeche DonAmeche Don DonAmeche Ameche Alice Faye and That Miranda Miranda woman is one of the est creatures Ive I've ever seen And one of the most fascinating But what puzzles me about the picture picture picture pic pic- ture ture is how it ever got past the Hay office My goodness when such a turmoil is raised over young oung girls wearing sweaters you'd think they'd j and pay some attention to dialogue situations Now mind you I wasn't shocked or offended I liked it And AndI I have a dark that the situation situation situation sit sit- I am referring to You'll know the one I mean when you see the picture picture picture pic pic- ture was lifted from De Funny how that word of mouth advertisement advertisement ad ad- gets around The afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon I saw The Devil and Miss l Jones Jones Jones Jon Jon- es there there was hardly a guard in the theater It was the first day of the picture It has been held over over for another week and you'll have to go early to get in in I really believe Id I'd enjoy seeing it again |