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HOLLYWOOD sequel but only a poor copy of the Strauss picture. With the one exception of Basser NEW WINE, with Alan CUI,tis (Franz man's interesting portrayal of Beethoven, it Schubert), Ilona Massey (Anna), Albert is feebly acted. The chief stur, Ilona Massey, BU::IocnnllJl (Doothoycn). ie hnrdly giv<>n A l!h'lnce to show ofl her lovely voice, and in Hollywood's hands the SltVG"lrORB Jl'O,lIrlN, a Warnor BrOD. life at Schubert hill! ulluergunc lIuch changeD Picture with Brenda Marshall (Vicki Moore), and that to ollr mind it would have been better to David Bruce (David Ritchie). call the hero of the film Albert instead of NINE LIJ'ES ARE NOT ENOUGH, a Scltubcct. The U::lunl cXlLg-g-oration of lone Warner Uros. l'icture with RUllalu Reagan lin""!l and poverty in the life of a genius is ~MllLt Sawyer), JlJall Fo::uy (Juno Abbott), nnd carried to an extreme. One thing to be Peter Whitnoy (Roy). mentioned in favor of the film is its accom paniment by well-perrol·wed - and genuino SUSPICION, an RKO Picture with Cary SChubert llIuslc. Grant (Johnnie Aysgarth), JOlln Fuutaiuc (Lina), And Nigel Bruce (Beaky 'fhwaite). Singapore Woman is the customary melo drama. with A trianglo, tropical rain_, And 7'UIS JYOllfrlN IS JlUiVB, a UlliVCrllQll"icturo fJ'f'O-for-AIIR in a Dicturesaue sailors' bar. with Fl,pnchot Ton9 (Robert Rtevens). John Brenda Marshall as 11 jinx woman who brings Carroll (Ovide de Montigny), Walter Brennan bad luck to all her admlrens luukll quite (Captain JUllaLlulU ThOI'll), and Cnrol Bruco beautiful. but the crown for tropical sultri (Julie Morglln). ness remains on Dorothy Lamour's head. The fUm wall shuwII in Shanghai at a time when M.T. Tl"tT MONEY C.4N BUY, an RKO Singapore was much in the news, and, although Picture with Edward Arnold (Daniel Webster), none of the players or directors hull prolJalJly Waltor RUDton (Mr. S.. r:lteh). .1ohn Qualen ever heen to Sinlrapore, Hollywood in some (Miser Stevens), James Craig (Jabez Stone), respects may not have been too far from Anne Shirley (Mary 5I.OUll), alll1 Simono Simon reality in dc:scribing lilo thoro. Tho r'lpi,iity (Belle). with wilieh Singapore changed hands makes •• • one suspect "hat Hollywuud wao pcrJ.np:s DlJ closer to the truth in its description of ,l[vrtlli:s Nil NilJo Donun,-you .houldn't ~1ngapore's say anything bad about the dead. That aLmospherll 1>eCul'e it lell than ill nlmont thc fooling one hag when re were the confident reports by British generals anll jUlUuuli:slll, viewing Hollywood films today. In the first pIneo, thero 896 THE XXth CENTURY f.rom New England around South America type of role which she had already proved in to the American Northwest. Many of the Rebecca. Cary Grant is disarmingly nonchalant names occurring in the film are historically and attractive, while Nigel Bruce givc.s a correct: that of the ill-fated ship Tonguin j of rather touching portrayal of the genial and its tyrunnical captain, Jonathan Thorn j of trusting friend. John Jacob Astor, the greatest fur king of We have left lhe review of what seems to his day j llnd of his Scottish partners. Con sidering nil the money invested in the us to be the oulstanding production of the careful reproduction of the Tonquin, of the lot to the end. All That Moncl/ Can BUI/ is a first fort at the mouth of thc Columbia remarkable pictU'l'e for several reasons. In River, and of the officers' uniforms, etc., this the first place, in this film Hollywood has might have been an excellent historical fillll. dared to leave its customary patterns, and But in oruer to sell it to the public the the spectator finds himseli in the u.lIusual directors invented a gi.rl-stowaway, whose position of watching a fUm for which he presence, once discovered, drives the ship's cannot offhand name a dozen obvious prede crew crazy. Too much of the story is cessors. taken up by the entirely irrelevant results of The plot is a legend of the early days of the girl's charms. In all other respects the New England, performed in such a way that film is one of the best in its class and of there is no clear line betwecn reality and particular interest to us sincc it describes an fairy tale. A young farmer, Jabez Stone, is important evcnt in Pacific history. pursued by bad luck. Everything he touches Suspirion belongs to that interesting srroup on the farm or in the home goes wrong, and 01 HOllywood films which lry to show he ..cll" I.!i::i ::ivul Lu Lile l1evll til the person or psychological developments rather than spec Mr. Scratch when in return he is promised Lliu:ulu ucLlun. SutJplcJon being one of the "oil th"t money "an ou,y:' AL IlnsL l.l!e characteristics of our time-with 1I1lllpicion of' bargain appears II huge success to Jabez. fifth columnists, traitors, spies, warmongers, Evcrythmg he does turns out well. He grows rich nnd hie ficlda flourioh. But at tho proYuC