Motion Picture Guide
By Bill Lindley, Motion Picture Editor, The Emerald
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M ,ey Kooney gets into more trouble as Andy Hardy in “Andy Har
dy's Double Life,” opening Sunday at the McDonald theater.
Although there are no dance numbers in “Sherlock Holmes
and the Secret Weapon," latest of a series of Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle detective stories being picturized by Universal, Johnny
Mattison, studio dance director devoted hours of his time to
the picture, which comes Thursday to the Heilig theater.
Heilig Mystery
The script called for Basi
Rathbone, as Holmes, to decotl
a message written in character.'
representing dancing men. Bu1
lief ire Holmes could decipher Ur.
message, telling of the where
abouts of a bombsight which th*.
enemy is trying to steal, a cock
had to he devised.
Director Roy William Neill, s
straight thinking realist, decid
ed the man best fitted to wo fl
out: such a code would be the
studio dance director, so Matti
son was called in to devise a body
position for each letter of the al
phabet, plus additional postures
for numerals, characters, etc.
Nigel Bruce is co-starred with
Rathbone in the new mystery
drama and the large cast in
cludes Lionel Atwill, Kaaren
Verne and other popular cinema
players. Howard Benedict was
the associate producer.
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OnCampus
The Hardy Family gets togeth
er again to send Mickey Rooney
off to college in “Andy Hardy’s
Double Life,” which opens Sunday
at the McDonald theater. And
Mickey gets into comical compli
cations galore before he’s more
or less safely on the train—de
lighted to see that a pretty coed
from the same college is aboard.
The story deals with three di
lemmas for Andy Hardy before
his departure for college. He sells
his jaloppy to a pal, who damag
es a greenhouse with it, and Andy
is held responsible as the owner
because the car is not paid for
completely. Then a pretty girl
makes a fuss over him, and in
sists that his romantic behavior
means a proposal of marriage.
Also his father wants to go to
college with him and introduce
him to his friend the president,
which Andy knows would make
him an outcast with “the fel
lows,” but he hates to tell his
father this.
Human Interest
His difficulties are ironed out
amid laughter, some human in
terest moments, and an inspiring
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Humphrey Bogart is featured
with Ingrid Bergman in “Casa
blanca” which starts Thursday
at the Rev theater.
'Lucky' Ladd Next
For Mac Screen
With that handsome tough guy,
Alan Ladd, as its chief protag
onist, Paramount's lively spy
drama, “Lucky Jordan,” will
blast its way come Thursday into
the McDonald theater. The story
concerns the adventures of an
American, gangster who meets up
with some of Hitler’s mobsters,
boys of the submarine brigade,
and discovers that the good old
U.S.A. is a swell country to fight
for after all.
In “Lucky Jordan" Alan Ladd
is a ruthless underworld “big
shot” who tries to evade the
draft but learns that Uncle Sam
is one guy who can't be “fixed.”
Even an ersatz mother, played by
Mabel Paige, fails to save him
from the army. Discipline, how
ever, is something the gangster
isn’t used to. He promptly goes
A.W.O.L., steals an automobile,
kidnaps a canteen hostess (that's
Helen Walker) when she gets in
his way and heads back to his
big city haunts. Happily for the
picture's plot, the stolen car,
owned by a war department offi
cial, contains a brief case in
which are some vitally important
military secrets. From then on
the film's action is fast and fu
rious with rival gangsters and
Axis agents fighting against
Ladd and the F.B.I. for the plans.
Dorothy Lamaur and Bob Hope score again in Sam Goldwyn’s laugh
hit, “They Got Me Covered,” coming Sunday to the Heilig theater.
They Got Me Covered’
Biggest, Best Hope Vehicle
The attempts of a newspaper correspondent to expose the
activities of foreign spies in this country give rise to the hilari
ous doings in Samuel Goldwyn’s newest comedy production,
“They Got Me Covered,” which opens Sunday at the Heilig
theater. The RKO Radio release co-stars Bob Hope and Doro
thy Lamour as a pair of news syndicate employees, Miss La
mour as the manager of the syn
dicate’s bureau in Washington,
Hope as a foreign correspondent
who is in bad with his boss and
is anxious to redeem himself with
a big story.
When a mysterious European
offers to sell him a complete con
fidential report on the personnel
and activities cf the Axis agents
in America, Hope leaps at the
opportunity. Before lie can get
the story, the Axis spies learn of
the threatened betrayal, pursue
the mystery man, intercept the
account he has just dictated, and
kidnap the stenographer who
wrote it.
Hot on t.he trail, Hope follows
in an effort to rescue his inform
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COMING SUNDAY
'Andn Hardg's
DOUBLE LIFE'
DON'T MISS MICKEY ROONEY
In His Latest Hit—With Lewis Stone
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