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45 Fathers (Twentieth Century-Fox). The 45 members of the Spear and Gun Club draw lots to decide which of them is to make a home for Cinemoppet Jane Withers. Jane, chunkily healthful, insufferably precocious, tries to smuggle a chimpanzee into Manhattan, demurs at singing and dancing lessons, straightens out another puppy love life. Redeeming feature: the dancing Hartmans, disguised as The Marvelous McCoys, adding ventriloquism to their repertory.

Conquerors of the Arctic (filmed by Mark Troyanovsky;* released by Amkino) films the conquest of the North Pole last May (TIME, May 31) by airmen and scientists of the Soviet Union. It follows the grim fight of determined men against howling Arctic weather, flies with them via Rudolf Island to the Pole itself, recording the weird tracery of the shifting ice pack as it appears from the air. At the Pole it shows the comrades jubilant, efficient, comfortable. They brush teeth, sluice bearded faces in the angled brightness of the Arctic sun, build an igloo settlement complete with electric lights on a 9-foot-thick ice floe. (Four scientists have already spent six months of an anticipated year there.) Camera study: chief conqueror Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt, parka and bosky beard a wreath of icicles. Christmas touch: an antlered reindeer team prancing under the low wing of one of the giant four-motored ANT6 monoplanes.

High Flyers (RKO Radio), a prettified thing of unfunny gags and attenuated plot, writes a wavering finis to Wheeler-Woolsey film comedy. The cinema first paired Robert Woolsey and Bert Wheeler in 1929 in Rio Rita. Since then they have been teamed in a dozen or more comedies, hitting their stride with pictures like Half Shot at Sunrise, Hold 'Em Jail, Hips, Hips, Hooray, skidding badly of late with Silly Billies, Mummy's Boys. Goggled, gaunt, aging Robert Woolsey completed High Flyers with a fever of 102, a doctor and nurse in attendance, has been ordered into retirement for at least a year. On his own again, younger, fresh-voiced Bert Wheeler is headed probably for the London Music Halls.

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It's Love I'm After (Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland).

Conquest (Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer).

Hurricane (Jon Hall, Dorothy Lamour, Mary Astor, Raymond Massey).

Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (Bert Lahr. Jimmy Savo. Billy House. Mischa Auer).

* Nephew to Soviet Ambassador to the U. S. Alexander Troyanovsky.

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