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Girl Crazy (RKO) is a vehicle fit for the comic talents of Robert Woolsey and Ben Wheeler, two funnymen from vaudeville who have lately aroused so much enthusiasm among cinemaddicts that they were last week the principals in an experiment to find a new way of paying actors. Harry Cohn, new president of Columbia Pictures Corp., announced that he had hired Wheeler & Woolsey to make a picture for a royalty on its profits, an arrangement never before tried by a major producing company. If it works. Columbia will try it on other employes...
...best Maria Egiziaca is not likely to become so popular as the Fountains of Rome and the Pines of Rome. When he started this famed cycle (1916) Respighi had a sure-fire formula fixed in his head. He would do a musical baedeker with gay, faintly comic descriptions, the kind of thing the Russians had taught him to write. He would write dreamy, sensuous interludes, great, glittering climaxes...
Here a U. S. cinema plot might have called for a hasty showdown, in which Jef would either forgive his Marceline or, pardonably, shoot her. Director Jean Choux, who wrote the story, avoided such cliches. As the candid husband. Rene Lefebvre has built up a brilliant characterization in comic pathos. He has cheerfully ground coffee at his wife's command, comforted her. unwittingly, when one of her lovers departed for Brazil. He is so helpless, so friendly that Clo-Clo tries to spare his feelings by not telling the bad news. Marceline returns and in the end, so skillfully...
...insurance company when the rest of the cast is excitedly chasing a man in a gray sheet. In fact this play has a little bit of everything. There is even a trick Ford, which when driven on the stage, proceeds to fall apart piece by piece as the comic driver attempts to keep it running...
Jauntily, after the miscarriage of his plans, Don Alfonso XIII left Paris for a tour of the Holy Land. "This is comic beyond belief!" he chuckled in Jerusalem when correspondents asked if he had signed the manifesto. "This is what I should call taking my name in vain...