Picture Pars

Observation Post, Volume 1, Issue 4, 12 June 1942, Page 4

Picture Pars

Mayfair. Stirring all-out range warfare animates the latest “Hopalong” Cassidy, outdoor drama, “Stick To Your Guns.” William Boyd, shooting it out with a band of rustlers or tracking his prey ; across the plains, is excellent again in the role of reckless “Hoppy,” who ' has an answer at his command or a gun at his side for every situation. Andy ,Clyde tops his remarkable series of appearances as “California,” doughty and dour aide-de-camp to the indefatigable Hoppy. ’ The two this time are required to wipe out an outlaw band which is systematically doing away with the cattle carrying the brand of an old pal, one of • the Bar-20 originals; who sends out an S.O.S. for his old cronies.

Meteor. —Long tagged in Hollywood I ■ as someone to be hated, Albert Dekker I gets his chance at a sympathetic role , in Paramount ’s “ Among the Living,” ■ commencing to-day at the Meteor . Theatre. To, make the transition' really | 1 curious, Paramount, in ripping off Dek- , ■ ker’s devil , horns, made Among the I Living” one of the chilliest horror films on record. The mid-week at- | | tractions make ’ good : entertainment [No. 1, “No Hands On The Clock,” is a comedy mystery. There excite- [ " inent and thrills for a detective on his I first caseand ' the comedy of a girl , who tried to help. The stars are Chester 1 Morris and Jean Parker, with’ Rose . 1 Hobart, Dick Purcell, Astrid' Allwyn I and Rod Cameron in the supporting '• cast. No. 2 “Glamour Boy?’ is a. romantic comedy, with the golden-voiced [Susanne Foster, co-starred with Jackie I Cooper. ' | I Regent—Old farces are like old ! soldiers in their immortality. “My I Wife Family,” one of the more sueI cessful, is no exception, and for sheer * , naughtiness this latest version has 1 never been surpassed. The dialogue of the peppy, wisecracking kind is enlivened with topical wartime references. Actually the story is a succession of misunderstandings, with the dialogue following the broad insinuation track with all the characters ■in 'turn misinterpreting what the other - person is driving at. Briefly it concerns the home-coming on leave of Jack Gay, a naval lieutenant (played by John War- “ wick), to find on his arrival that his (martinet mother-in-law is arriving on | the next train and plans to stay a few it, months with the newly married couple. His wife’s brother, an officer .", has j ve secretly married their maid and pro ■ I seated her with a baby.

. NOT IN HIS LINE. The soldier was explaining the theory of shooting to his girl friend. “ You see, we have to . calculate ■ tin distance of the object we want tohit and then allow for the power of attrae tlon of the earth.” “But suppose you • are shooting ove the water? “Oh, that’s more than you would un —besides, I’m not in thi Navy.’’

PUNCTUAL. Fond mother . (writing- to her soldier son): “Well, son, I . hope you have been punctual in rising every morning so that you haven’t kept the regiment waiting for you.”