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...TIME: A complimentary subscription to the Southern California comic-monthly Wampus...
...medley of Noel Coward's best-known songs which Coward took time to sing in his casual, high-pitched voice; a scene from the Savoy Follies given last summer in London in which Actress Florence Desmond does shrewd imitations of screen celebrities attending a Hollywood party; a comic take-off on any bad lieder singer done by the French comedian Betove. Most popular of the new classical importations are the Beethoven Concertos (First & Fifth) which German Pianist Artur Schnabel has made with the London Symphony...
...accompanying feature, "Tonight is Ours" demonstrates again that the team of Colbert and March can cope successfully with most discouraging material. As in the "Son-Daughter" the call of patriotism breaks the thread of true love, but this time the outcome is comic. The plot is, of course, impossible; but that is inconsequential. For the lovelorn there is much gush; for the cynical there is a dash of Noel Coward's sophistication; for the ladies there is always the Colbert wardrobe...
What! No Beer? (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Most cinemaddicts in the U. S. find Jimmy Durante's exaggerated nose and chronic excitement an irresistibly comic combination. His frozen-faced teammate, Buster Keaton, is an attraction abroad where people cannot understand what either one is talking about. In this picture, misinterpreting radio reports of the election, Durante and Keaton purchase a brewery in the delusion that their enterprise is legal. Fortunately they are so incompetent that they make near beer in spite of themselves; when arrested, they are immediately set free. By acquiring an experienced braumeister, they are soon in dangerous...
...celestial due. Francis G. Cleveland as Blanco mixes subtle perception and incipient delirium tremens in just the right proportions. Philip Bourneuf does a masterly job of hypocritical piety as Elder Daniels. Aldrich Bowker, though erring occasionally on the side of the obvious, makes for the most part a delightfully comic sheriff. The rest of the cast, clear down to the twelfth member of the rough and ready jury, is eminently acceptable...