Evening star., 1942-03-27

"Dildo Cay" 1t is not her fault, no
doubt, any more than it was the
fault of Nelson Hayes, who wrote
the original, that Miss Carroll was
cast as the spurned, broken-hearted
girl In the interest of her own
standing as a sophisticate. however,
she might have said something
something Sardonic.
"Dildo Cay in case you did not
read it which apparently leaves you
even with Paramount's casting de-
partment, is the story of group
of people who extract salt from the
Atlantic. They live on sun
drenched, terrifically boresome is
land-four whites to $50 natives.
The four whites are: l, Hayden
who is the son of a long line Of
Ainsworths who is so enchanted with
the charms of the islands remote
ness that he has eyes for nothing
else; 2, Miss Carroll who is more
beautiful than ever in technicolor,
who comes there as bookkeeper-
ever so worldly wise-and falls in
love with the simple-minded dolt
who represents the last Ainsworth; !;
3, Miss CAROLS suavely dishonest
father who accepts the job as head
man of the Ainsworth enterprise be-
cause all other possible employers
have found him out; and. 4. the
Ainsworths heirs mother who has
gone crazy of loneliness
The bare Characterization of the
story should suggest what happens
to all of them. not to mention what
happens to the $50 poor natives
whose primitiveness could not save
them from the communicable in
sanity affecting their supposed su-
periors.
If it does not. let it be said that
the picture amounts to running
feud between Miss Carroll and Hay
den, a feud with almost deafeningly
loud Freudian overtones.
She, out of her past, decides he is
the strength and serenity which life
has denied her. He. out of his stern
Scottish righteousness and aloof-
ness to civilization. decides she is
Jezebel. From that standpoint,
they bicker and quarrel through a
series of uneventful passages that
leave you with the conviction that
it is waste of their time and yours.
When they are not boring you
with their dilatory tactics - it Is
clear that they are never worse than
oilatory-the- addle-brained Aims
worth mother is being annoying with
her complete misconception of the
bellicosity of the natives. Or, worse
still, the dishonest father of Miss
Carroll is being one more Of those
suave, conscienceless villains who
leaves you always two jumps ahead
of him with regard to his next des-
picable act.
Edward Griffith, who directed
Bahama Passage" obviously has
concluded that the tropical locale
of his picture justifies letting it
move at tropical pace. He is never
IN half so much of hurry to get
a scene over as you are, 4 difference
of attitude that does not help his
picture very much.
But the technicolor is wonderful,
and it is something to see Miss Car
roll and Hayden wearing those old
tropical costumes which you asso-
ciate with Dorothy Lamour and
Robert Preston, or even Johnny
Weissmuller.
Cliff Nazzaro, the movies double
talk comedian, is the headliner of
this weeks stage show at the Capt.
tol, and he makes very fine head
liner. Before he has finished his
l2-minute stretch. he has covered
almost as much ground as William
Saroyan character. He tells jokes,
he plays the piano, he does samples
af his famous double talk, and then
He sings. 1t comes of quite hand
somely, take it all in all.
Frank and Jean Hubert, Lester
Cole and his debutantes, and the