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fw;-.e entertainment for moviegoers than days capitally opposite her and theLife.” One wonders now whether the praise was merited. On reading over our typed review of the photoplay, we find that we have spoken of it three times as “I Live My Live,” once as “I Life My Live,” and three times ar “I Life My Life.” And alliterative confusion such as that should not be).A Corking Film of the Navy aiulof Life Is “Shipmates Forever,” at the Mainstrect.Richard John Melville III... .Dick PowellJune Blackburn............Ruby KeelerAdmiral Melville........... .Lewis Ston«Sparks ................Ross AlexanderSIim Eddie AcuffGifford .Richard ForanCoxswain .......*........John Arledg#Ted Sterling..............Robert LightCommander Douglin........Joseph KingAdmiral Graves........Frederick BurtonThe Doctor.........».....Henry KolktrSpike ..................Joseph CrehanSlim’s Girl..........................Mary TreenSparks's Girl............Martha MerrillSecond Classman. ♦.......Carlyle MooreHarry .................. .Harry SeymourOTION pictures, as the entire photoplay-going world knows, run in series. You have the “G-Men” group, the gang group, the “western” group, the aviation group, the Army group, and, at present, the Navy group. It seems to be the fad these days to picture Annapolis and the cadets of the United States Naval academy on the screen, the latest release in that regard being “Shipmates Forever,” atthe Mainstreet this week.“Shipmates Forever” follows hard upon “Annapolis Farewell,” another Navy picture recently viewed, and we like “Shipmates” the better of the two films. It has its tragic note, as “Annapolis Farewell” did, but does not end on that tragedy. Instead it ends with Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler getting married, which would be a tragedy to A1 Jolson, at that.The start of the picture finds Powell as a New York jazz band leader and crooner who is a conceited pup and boasts proudly that he is making two or three times the salaryEN’S EYES.demands a room of his own, and is ahe is his class leaderenit means aa elf lt;-:asasPowell isn’t.to*s “IfbeaAweigh!” and everything is all,most given up all hope that things would turn out that way.Powell plays the leading role In “Shipmates Forever” in the way that Is intended, probably, but the part is an unpleasant one much of the time, so the spectators grow far fonder ofthe aforementioned Miss Keeler, Mr, Stone, Mr Alexander.Mr. Arledge, noted in the paragraph above, than they do of Dick, will have to bru^h up on her tap-dancing to keep pace with Eleanor Powell in “Broadway Melody” certainly. The scene showing Miss Keeler teaching a group of children how to dance is hardly a grateful one, as any woman, even though she be as diminutive as Ruby is, would look large and awkward doing a tap step in the midst of a lot of little boys and girls.We would like to say a particular word of praise for the acting of RossAlexander in this film. We have never thought the boy was good before and have noted the fact definitely and thoroughly. In “Shipmates Forever” he is FINE. We want to note the fact in capital letters.Things that irritate movie writers: The announcement in the press book of “Shipmates Forever” that Dick Powell thinks that every actor who plays in an army or navy picturea(hlt;BstvircinaiasFfcIlt;/“fA MEDICO WHO GETS INTm■40*'Paul Muni has the title role in *‘I practices in a small town that gangst There is plenty of excitement in the : of it all.should get a service stripe from the government. Aw, now, you go on!Swell songs: “Don't Give Up the Ship.” “I d Love to Take Orders From You,” and “I'd Rather Listen to Your Eyes,” all in the “Shipmates” score.1sit!aicjSIa f A Q
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Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Sun, Oct 13, 1935
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