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Lady From Louisiana (Republic) suggests that the land of the bayous was ripe for plucking long before the advent of Kingfish Huey Long. It also records the triumph of a 19th-Century Thomas E. Dewey (John Wayne) over one of Dewey's favorite rackets--the lottery.

It is natural, of course, that deadpanned John Reynolds (Mr. Wayne), a Yankee Attorney hired by the anti-lottery league to smash the racket, should fall in love with coquettish Julie (Ona Munson), Rebel daughter of goateed General Mirbeau (Henry Stephenson), owner of the lottery. When sudden death overtakes the General and promotes his daughter to head of the lottery, Buster Reynolds is confronted with the painful problem of destroying his light-o-love's source of income without losing her affection.

Whatever curiosity cinemaddicts may have about early Louisiana might easily be satiated by coupling Lady From Louisiana with Marlene Dietrich's The Flame of New Orleans (TIME, May 12) on a double bill. Both pictures met some time ago when Miss Dietrich reportedly tried to get Mr. Wayne for her leading man in The Flame. This failure may have disappointed him. His deportment in support of capable Miss Munson is completely disinterested.

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