War-Time Spain Still Land of Romance

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 181, 3 August 1938, Page 11

War-Time Spain Still Land of Romance

LORETTA YOUNG AND DON AMECHE CO-STARRED

(Meteor: Screening Tuesday.)

War-time Spain is still the reckless land of ardent love. Bombers roar and big guns thunder, but who’s afraid of romance? Not entrancing Loretta Young or tempestuous Don Ameche, who hurdle the Spanish harbed-wire barricades and trip headlong into romantic excitement and adventure in “Love Under Fire.”

Loretta Young, gayer and lovelier than ever, and Don Ameche, smash-hit star of radio’s Sunday night brightspot, ration out kisses by the light of bursting star-shells, to be tune of whining shrapnel, and the mad music of Borrah Minevitch and his gang, whose catchy rhythms make machine-guns rat-tat-tat in swing time. Directed in swift-paced fashion by George Marshall, the cast also features Frances Drake, Walter Catlett, the goggle-eyed, blustering comedian; John Carradine, new subtle screen menace; Sig Rumann, and Harold Huber. Fun and furore reign as the Spanish conflict brings together a Scotland Yard detective, a fugitive beauty who believes, erroneously, that she is a thief, an entertainment troupe and their smart-alecky manager, and the men engaged in bloody war.

Feathers were flying fast and furiously on the RKO Radio set of 44 Mother Carey’3 Chickens’’ when the whole Carey family, composed of Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler, Fay Bain ter, Ralph Morgan, Jackie Moran and Donnie Dunagan, indulged in a firstclass pillow fight.