ENTERTAINMENT

Moviegoers

Movies will be rated from one to four exclamation points (!) according to merit, and primarily from a male point of view.

!!!! Risk court martial to see.

!!! Worth three hours of any man's liberty.

!! O.K. f you don't want to spend much on a date.

!For civilians only.

"The Crystal Ball"

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at the Loew's Theaters

Starring Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, and Virginia Fields, this pie boasts a plot that is serewy with a left hand thread. Goddard is a stranded gal who works in a shooting gallery and doubles up for a crooked fortune teller, who has gotten Ray Milland in trouble. Paulette falls for Ray, and without letting him know she is now the "globalonier," gets him out of the situation, finally wianng him from Virginia. Fields. Bill Bondix, who slugged Alan Ladd into the "Land of Nod" so brutally in "The Glass Key" is good as a comic chaffeur. With its unique plot and rollicking pace, you wen't have a dull moment.

"Arabian Nights"

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at the UT

If you can forget Sabu the Elephant Boy, and concentrate on Maria Montez, you won't mind this distorted version of the Arabian Nights. The scenery is in Arizona, not Arabia, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba are comics, and the story revolves around a dispute between two brothers as to who shall buy Caliph. Whatever liberties Hollywood has taken with the original are more than justified by luscious harem scenes and Maria Montez in technicolor. As a movie it is worth one, but as entertainment at least two (!)'s.

Immortal Sergeant"

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at the Keith Boston

A vivid background on the Libyan desert and some of the most utterly realistic battle scenes ever filmed hold up an otherwise flimsily constructed picture. Henry Fonda goes through the process of becoming a leader of men under the tutelage of Thomas Mitchell, who is the sergeant in charge of a lost sunrise-patrol. Every so often, there is a flash-back to Maureen O'Hara, because Hollywood has just got to work romance in somehow. Since Maureen isn't on the scene of action it moves along fairly well, but not on a par with terrific action scenes, which alone make it good entertainment.

"A Night to Remember"

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at the Kieth Boston

Brian Aherne plays the part of a wisecracking murder-story writer whose pert wife, lovely Loretta Young, leads to a Greenwich Village apartment at No. 13 Gay Street. There, she hopes, he will write romantic novels. The discovery that something sinister is going an in the building, at times in their own apartment, thwarts the gay couple's literary plans, and sends them merrily-a-sleuthing. Aherne and Young, and an able supporting cast, turn in good performances, but the plot is none too exciting, and the dialogue strains for laughs. It is only average entertainment.