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Metropolitan--"Footlight Parade." James Cagney, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, and Joan Blondell in a repitition of "Forty-Second Street...
...Footlight Parade (Warner). The cinemusicomedy as developed by Warner Brothers is exceedingly simple. It consists of assembling dancers in as many improbable patterns as possible, photographing them from unexpected angles. In this one, the chorus warms up on a few simple circles, live-pointed stars and sprocket wheels, shot from above. The novelty lies in having the chorus swim and pose in an extraordinary pool backed by a combined waterfall and diving-platform. While still immersed, Warners' geometrical water-babies arrange themselves further into formations resembling a caterpillar unfolding its legs, a zipper-fastener opening & closing. On dry land...
This problem may have suggested the plot of Footlight Parade, about a dunce director who has a hard time thinking up new routines, finds that his rival promptly steals them. The novelty in the backstage romance in Footlight Parade consists in having it occur not in the wings of a theatre hut in a cinema studio where James Cagney is the dance director, Joan Blondell his affectionate secretary, Ruby Keeler his star tap-dancer, Dick Powell his best juvenile, Guy Kibbee his fenag-ling partner. Philip Faversham, son of famed William Faversham who was a matinee idol 30 years...
What other American city has inspired a composer of opera to sing of conviviality and to create a footlight hero in the image of a jolly brewer? From Cincinnati came The Prince of Pilsen...
Thirteen square feet of steel plates have been obtained from the Boston Navy Yard by the Harvard Rifle Club and are to be put in place in the new Stadium range today. Likewise, a 100-watt footlight has been installed in the Stadium for use at the range. There are also 400 gunny sacks to be filled with sand and placed alongside the plates...