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Special Films and Newsreels

Museum of Modern Art-- 11 W. 53rd. CI 5-8900. Weekdays 3 &5:30. Sun 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, ex. where specially noted. Admission to films included in the price of admission to museum, 30c incl. tax. June 1-3-- Hands Up (Raymond Griffith, 1926); Two Tars (Laurel & Hardy, 1928)... June 4-7-- Bean Geste (Ronald Colman, Wm. Powell, 1926)... June 8-10-- Underworld (George Bancroft, 1927).

Foreign Films
Films have English subtitles unless otherwise noted.
FRENCH-- Apollo, 42 W. of B'way, LO 5-3700 -- Thurs. (7th)-Wed. Ces Dames aux Chapeaux Verts. Also American film.
5th Ave. Playhouse, 5th Ave. & 13. GR 5-9738-- Fri.-Tues. Pepe Le Moko. Also russian film. Wed.-Tues. The Last Millionaire. Also American Film.
55th St. Playhouse, 154 W. 55. CO 5-9438-- Continuing, Heart of Paris; L'Alibi.
Irving Pl., at 14. GR 5-6975-- Fri.-Wed. Last Will of Dr. Mabuse. Also Russian film.
Savoy, 34 & B'way. LO 5-7935 -- Sun. The Baker's Wife. Also American film.
Thalia, 95 & B'Way. Ac 2-3370-- Fri.-Mon. Grand Illusion; Carnival in Flanders.
GERMAN-- 86th St. Casino, 210 E. 86. RE 7-0257 -- Fri.-Thurs. Die Sporkck'schen Jager.
HUNGARIAN-- Europa, 78 & 1st Ave. RE 7-0472 -- Fri.-Sun. Nem Elhetek Muzsikaszo Nelkul; Kisertetek Vonata. All Hungarian.
ITALIAN-- Arena, 8th Ave. & 41. LO 5-6802 -- Fri.-Sun. Grandi Magazzini; Adventure di Giacomo Casanova.
RUSSIAN-- Apollo, 42 W. of B'way. LO 5-3700 -- Fri.-Wed. Musical Story. Also English film.
5th Ave. Playhouse, 5th Ave. &13. GR 5-9738--Fri.-Tues. Volga, Volga. Also French film.
Irving Pl., at 14. GR 5-6975--Fri.-Wed. Peasants. Also French film.
Standley, 7 Ave. & 42. WI 7-9686-- Cont. Zoya.
SPANISH-- Art, 1077 Southern Blvd. DA 3-8900-- Fri. Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra. Sat.-Fri. La Trepadora. All Spanish.
Belmont, 121 W. 48. BR 9-0378-- Fri.-Thurs. En El Viejo Buenos Aires. All Spanish. 
Manhattan, Manhattan & 109. AC 2-0108 -- Fri. El Corsario Negro. Sat.- Fri. Ti Quiere para Mi. All Spanish.
Teatro Hispano, 5 Ave. & 116. UN 4-8066 -- Frid.-Thurs. El Hijo de Cruz Diablo. All Spanish. Also stage show. 
SWEDISH-- 48th St. Cinema, 247 W 48. CO 5-9159 -- Cont. Det Brinner en Eld.

Newsreels
EMBASSY, B'Way & 46. PE 6-3200 --Fri.-Thurs. News; This Is America- Guam-Salvaged Island; Dogs for Show.
EMBASSY NEWSREEL, 42 & Park. PE 6-3211-- Fri.-Thurs. News; This is America-- Honorable Discharge; Victory: On to Tokyo; Cartoon.
EMBASSY, 33 W. 50. PE 6-3207-- Fri.-Thurs. News; This is America-- Honorable Discharge; Victory: On to Tokyo; Cartoon.
EMBASSY, B'way & 72. PE 6-3200 -- Fri.-Thurs. News; This is America-- Honorable Discharge; Victory: On to Tokyo; Cartoon.
GRAND CENTRAL, G. C. Terminal. MU 9-8829--Daily: News; shorts.
TRANS-LUX, B'way & 49. Co 5-4641-- Fri.-Mon. News; This is America-- Honorable Discharge; Victory: On to Tokyo; Cartoon: Draftee Daffy .... Tues. Wed. News; Comedy: Birthday Blues; Novelties: Your National Gallery; Unusual Occupations; Cartoon: I Love to Singa.... Thurs.-Mon. News Cartoon: First Aiders; Victory: To the Shores of Iwo Jima; Sport: Athlete of the Year; Travel: City of Paradox.
TRANS-LUX, Madison & 60. CI 6-2746-- Fri.-Mon. News; This is America-Honorable Discharge; Victory: On to Tokyo; Cartoon: Barney Bear's Polar Pest.... Tues. Wed. News; Screen Snapshots; Musical: Rhythm of the Rumba; Sport: Athlete of the Year; Cartoon: Plenty of Money and You.... Thurs.-Mon. News; Cartoon: First Aiders; Victory: To the Shores of Iwo Jima; Speaking of Animals: In the Public Eye.

Weekend Films for Young People
Program of features and shorts recommended for children 8-14, by Schools Motion Picture Committee of National Board of Review.
COVERING June 1-3
Single Features
8th St. Playhouse, Roughly Speaking*, Sat. Sun.
Criterion, Counter-Attack*.
Victoria, The Way Ahead*, Sat. Sun.
Gotham, Molly and Me*.
Rivoli, A Medal for Benny*.
Roxy, Diamond Horseshoe* .
Normandie, Thunder Rock*.
Sutton Cinema, Naughty Marietta*.
Plaza, Roughly Speaking*, Fri. Sat.
68th St. Playhouse, Tree Grows in Brooklyn*.
Double Features
77th Street Symphony, Roughly Speaking*; House of Fear*.
Yorktown, Roughly Speaking*; House of Fear*, Fri. Sat.
Newsreels
*Grand Central, G. C. Terminal.
*Trans-Lux, B'way & 60.
*Embassy, 42 & Park; 47 & 7th; 33 W. 50; B'way and 72.
Programs for Younger Children
8th St. Trans-Lux, Tarzan's Triumph, Sat.11 a.m.

*For age groups above 12.
For Further Information call Schools Motion Picture Committee, AL 4-8344

Reviews
Brief reviews of feature pictures showing in your locality. The numbers of the theatres where shown are listed on the FILM INDEX, on page 35. [(Star Symbol)] Indicates especially recommended. [(Cross Symbol?)] Indicates not reviewed at press time.

ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER-- (95m. Selznick. '38) Good juvenile. Tommy Kelly, Jackie Moran. Dir. Taurog.
ALICE ADAMS-- (95m. RKO. '35) Katherine Hepburn splendid in this photo version of Booth Tarkington's novel. Fred Stone, Fred MacMurray.
ALWAYS IN MY HEART-- (92m. WB. '41) Mildly entertaining drama of father love. W. Huston, K. Francis, Gloria Warren.
AND NOW TOMORROW-- (86m. Par. '44) Pleasant romance about a deaf girl and the doctor who cures her. Well acted by Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, Barry Sullivan, Susan Hayward.
ARIZONA-- (123m. Col. '40) Huge panoramic epic of pioneer days. Typical frontier melodrama, love, Indian-fighting. Slow, reasonably entertaining. Jean Arthur, Wm. Holden, Warren William. Dir. Ruggles.
[(Star Symbol)] BAKER'S WIFE, THE-- (90m. '40) In French, Eng. subtitles. Delightful adult comedy, superbly played by Raimu. Dir. Pagnol.
[(Star Symbol)] BARBARY COAST-- (90m. '35) Revival. Fast, exciting, elaborate melodrama of California Gold Rush days. Edw. G. Robinson, Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea.
BEDTIME STORY-- (83m. Col. '42) Lively, amusing, backstage comedy. Fred March, Loretta Young.
BELLE OF THE YUKON-- (83m. RKO. '45) Confused, fumbling comedy; set in Alaskan Gold Rush of '98. Excellent color, but the fun falls flat. Randolph Scott, Gypsy Rose Lee, Dinah Shore, Chas. Winninger, Bob Burns.
BETRAYAL FROM THE EAST-- (82. RKO. '45) Poor spy melodrama; Japanese (pre-Pearl Harbor) try to snitch Panama Canal plans. Lee Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Loo.
BETWEEN TWO WOMEN-- (83m. MGM. '45) Passable Dr. Gillespie (Dr. Kildare) hospital and romantic drama. Van Johnson, Lionel Barrymore, Gloria de Haven, Keenan Wynn.
BEYOND TOMORROW-- (84m. RKO. '40) Sentimental romance, with a supernatural background. Three friendly ghosts bring two quarreling lovers together. Hokey, unconvincing, slow. Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Chas. Winninger.
BIG BONANZA-- (68. Rep. '35) Lively Western; Civil War days. Richard Arlen, Robt. Livingston, Jane Frazee.
BIG SHOW-OFF-- (69m. Rep. '45) Thin, inoffensive little comedy of no importance. Arthur Lake, Dale Evans, Lionel Stander.
BIG STORE, THE-- (88m. MGM. '41) Typical Marx Bros. comedy; familiar, but still funny. 
BLACK SWAN-- (85m. 20th Cent. '42) Technicolored, Sabatini tale; romance and piracy in Caribbean. Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Thos. Mitchell.
BLUEBEARD-- (73m. Prod. '44) Lurid, grim multi-murder mystery, based on Paris murderer of 1885. John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther.
BODY SNATCHER, THE-- (77m. RKO, '45) Superb example of a thrilling, ghoulish horror film, involving grave robbery, dissection, kidnapping, and murder in Edinburgh in 1832. From R. L. Stevenson's story; excellently produced and played by Boris Karloff, Henry Daniell, Bela Lugosi, Russell Wade.
BOSTON BLACKIE BOOKED ON SUSPICION-- (67m. Col. '45) Typical third-rate "Blackie" sleuth melodrama. Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick.
BROADWAY RHYTHM-- (114m. MGM. '44) Familiar backstage musical; young producer puts on hit show. In Technicolor. Just fair. George Murphy, Ginny Simms, Chas. Winninger, Tommy Dorsey, "Rochester."
BUFFALO BILL-- (92m. 20th Cent. '44) Grand Technicolor photography, but loose, wobbly movie romance tied to pseudo-biography. Excellent Indian fighting scenes. Joel McCrea, Those. Mitchell, Maureen O'Hara.
CARNIVAL IN FLANDERS-- (95m. '37) Excellent French farce, subtitled, adult, rowdy.
[(Cross Symbol?)] CEST DAMES AUX CHAPEAUX VERTS-- French-made, pre-War, comedy; English subtitles. Marguerite Moreno, Pierre Larquey.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN FESTIVAL-- Reissue of four of Chaplin's early silent film two-reel comedies: "Easy Street", "The Cure", "The Immigrant", and "Adventurer".
[(STAR SYMBOL)] CHEERS FOR MISS BISHOP-- (94m. UA. '41) Beautifully played, sentimental, poignant, biography of a school teacher. Martha Scott, Wm. Gargan, Mary Anderson. 
CHINA SKY-- (78m. RKO. '45) Cheap, trashy tale about a U.S. doctor in China, his selfish bride, unselfish nurse. Badly written, awkwardly acted. Randolph Scott, Ellen Drew, Ruth Warrick.
[(CROSS SYMBOL)] CISCO KID RETURNS-- Western; Duncan Renaldo.
[(STAR SYMBOL)] CLAUDIA-- (91m., 20th Cent. '43) Poignant comedy-drama about a young wife and how she grew up. Beautifully played by Dorothy McGuire, Robt. Young, Ina Claire.
COME LIVE WITH ME-- (85m. MGM. '41) Silly, synthetic romance. H. Lamar, J. Steward.
CORN IS GREEN-- (118m. WB. '45) Bette Davis in role made famous by Ethel Barrymore on stage. Drama of a schoolteacher's efforts to bring education to Welsh miners; still thin, undramatic, slow and dry. Well acted, with John Daly, Rhys Willians, Nigel Bruce, Rosalind Ivan, Mildred Dunnock.
COUNTER-ATTACH-- (90m. Col. '45) Film version of 1943 Broadway drama that pictured a Soviet soldier holding a dozen Nazis at bay in a cellar. Interesting, but static, talky, though well acted by Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman, Larry Parks, Philip van Zandt. Dir. Z. Korda.
COURAGEOUS MR. PENN--(76m. '44) British made historical drama; Penn, founder of Philadelphia. Slow, detailed, well acted. Clifford Evans, Deborah Kerr.
COWBOY AND THE LADY--(91m. UA. '38) Bright, amusing romantic comedy. Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon, Patsy Kelly, Walt Brennan, Fuzzy Knight.
CRAZY KNIGHTS--(63m. Mon. '45) Fourth rate comedy-melodrama; clutching hands, secret passageways, escaped ape, howls in the night. Billy Gilberts, Shemp Howard, Jayne Hazard.
CRIME DOCTOR'S COURAGE--(70m. Col. '45) Dull mystery. Warner Baxter, Hillary Brooke.
DARK MOUNTAIN -- (56m. Par. '44) Poor melodrama; forest ranger outwits gangster, gets girl. Robt. Lowery, Ellen Drew, Regis Toomey.
DEAD END--(95m) 1937 revival; excellent film version of stage slum melodrama. Sylvia Sydney, Joel McCrea, H. Bogart.
DESIRE--(95m Par. '36) Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper in an international duel thief romance. Amusing, well played.
DESTINY-(65m. Univ. '45) Confused and uneven melodrama; man hunted by the police, though innocent, has faith restored in humanity. Little Gloria Jean does it to Alan Curtis.
DIAMOND HORSEHORE -- (104m. 20th Cent. '45) Large, lavish, generally entertaining Technicolored musical, loaded with songs, dances, spectacles, etc., tied to moderately interesting story about a dancer and a would-be crooner. Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Phil