“REVEILLE WITH BEVERLY”

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 278, 21 August 1944, Page 3

“REVEILLE WITH BEVERLY”

(Second week). —Before writing this I meant to check with Hie theatre's manager about how many people had fainted in the 10 days that “Reveille with Beverly” (ij’laza) has been screening. You'll know, of course, that. I’m referring to Hie muchpublicized Frank -Sinatra, the extraordinary young man of Italian descent who seems to have done more for the ejnotions of young America than anything since the Declaration of Independence. Anyway, be makes a 10-minute appearance, singo “Night and Day” caressingly to’a dozen easy-to-look-at blondes, and then walks off, leaving the audience in a pother of oohs and aahs. Ann Miller is Beverly, the ambitious radio announcer who institutes a bright, dawn session for soldiers who just, hate to get tip in the morning. This gives tlie producer ample scope for introducing ail sorts of bands and stars —‘Bob Crosby’s, Duke Ellington’s, Count Basie’s, Freddie Slack's, the Mills Brothers and the Radio Rogues. If vou speak ‘pedantic English or French the 'title of tho film may lack rhythm; lint just match reveille with Beverly and you've caught on nicely. Hugh Herbert, Carole Landis and Groucho Marx arc among tlie stars in the first half of short subjects, a collection for which it Is worth being in your seat in time.

“Hoppy Serves a Writ” (Tudor).—Hopalong Cassidy and his Bar 20 Boys in an action-packed film of the West. Associate feature: “The McGuorius from Brooklyn,” with William Bendix and Grace Bradley.