Susannah of the Mounties (Twentieth Century-Fox) is, of course, that old trouper Shirley Temple, age 10, this time a waif from a waylaid wagon train. Her role in the North-West Mounted Police is: 1) making Orderly J. Farrell MacDonald say his prayers and 2) teaching six-foot-two Randolph Scott to waltz, knees akimbo, to the tune of Learning McFadden to Waltz.*
Her role in the great Northwest is to bring lasting peace between the Empire builders and the howling Blackfoot Indians, in token of which Big Chief Maurice Moscovitch dubs her "Golden Hawk, Little Spirit...
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