Word: casting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Miss Hayes did not attempt the Irish brogue when she appeared in her last show, the worthy but ill-starred Mr. Gilhooley. Again she deserves praise for not trying to put any English on her speech, although she is surrounded by a cast of excellent Britishers...
...dance arrangement for it. The plot concerns a street-singer and a street-hawker who fall in love with the prettiest girl in their neighborhood. One of them wins her in spite of complications caused by a bully-boy who gets possession of a key to her apartment. The cast is not famous (Albert Frejean, Edmond Greville, Pola Illery), but they act so well that spectators do not have to understand French to follow the story. Best shot : the singer stimulating a crowd to sing while both men peddle their music in the street...
...penguins in the toyshop scene, play in a jazz band, direct the lumbering movements of three very large elephants. In the midst of the general merriment one midget rides across the stage on a reindeer. What is left of the Herbert score is ably handled by a cast of full-sized adults and a small but energetic pit orchestra...
...likes Whiskey. Let's get him frisky-Maybe he will buy drinks for the crowd. . . . As is customary in Triangle shows, the script is peppered with undergraduate lampoons on the Princeton faculty, curriculum and social system, which are more interesting to student audiences and immediate relatives of the cast than to the public at large. A new high is set in Princeton satire, however, with a song which demonstrates how to become a member of one of the better Princeton clubs, particularly how to greet classmates on the main campus thoroughfare, McCosh walk. "Doing the McCosh walk" advises young...
...Joseph Mankiewicz is mentioned in connection with the adaptation. But judging from the picture, which is hilariously funny, none of these authorities had much to do with it. Only Saps Work has been composed, acted and directed strictly "from the cuff" -the sort of picture in which cast, cameramen and executives on location go into a conference after each sequence to decide what to do next. It is Leon Errol's picture, and the best stretches are those in which, postponing as long as possible the moment for the next conference, he extemporizes while the cameras watch...