Author Archive: Retro

Clark Kent and Lois Lane, out for a stroll, discover a jewelry robbery in progress. Lois gets a good look at one of the burglars. Later Clark and Jimmy Olsen visit Jimmy’s old school to discuss Superman’s visit there to promote the U.S. Treasury Department’s Savings Stamp program. In the meantime, Lois is captured by Blinky, the jewelry burglar she spotted. When Lois doesn’t show up to join Clark and Jimmy, Clark realizes she’s in trouble and arranges for Superman to save the day and still make his appearance at the school’s Stamp Day.

Charlie hires three “party girls” to help him land a business deal.

Filmed in England. A little girl is distressed and feeling guilty about losing wings for her costume in a school play. After noticing an angel, she follows it to a dark building. Upstairs in the attic, bathed in heavenly light, is an artist’s model, the Angel. The painter ascends a ladder until he is out of shot, implying a trip to heaven, and reappears to bring Amelia a pair of wings.

Mrs. McNitt is a social climber, intent on her daughter Phyllis marrying Larry Lodge, a handsome rich kid. She’s engaged a drama teacher, the punctilious Clifford Figfield, to cast Phyllis and Larry in a kissing scene. Her second husband, McNitt, gets a visit from his modest daughter, Sally, whom Mrs. McNitt wants out of sight. Larry meets Sally, she stands in during the kissing rehearsal, and Larry is now in love. It’s a rocky courtship when, Larry thinks she’s a maid who’s Mr. McNitt’s fluff on the side and when Mrs. McNitt tells Sally that Larry is a flirt engaged to Phyllis. Can it all be straightened out by the next day’s dress rehearsal? And what of Figfield?