Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sonny Boy (Warner). Cast as the title of a theme-song, young Davey Lee created in The Singing Fool a demand for a picture in which he would be starred. Few critics dared to suppose that the vehicle would be more than a sentimental nimbus around the small Lee smile. They found instead an amusing and at times witty farce involving the efforts of a mother to keep a husband, from whom she is separated, from stealing his son. Lee (4 in May) is younger and funnier than Jackie Coogan was when he made The Kid with Charles Chaplin. Best...
...seemed last week as though a mid-western cyclone had swooped upon the normally quiet campus of the University of Missouri. President Stratton Duluth Brooks stormed about "a fool trick without authorization of administrative forces." Irate alumni demanded student, even faculty expulsions. In St. Louis, Representative Robert F. Miller demanded a thorough investigation...
...Third?That Governor Long plays the role of the singing fool in cabarets and other places...
...costume gives a certain conviction to the romantic story of a French count who finds his future wife, a countess, in the arms of another. He then falls in love with Lupe Velez, a cabaret entertainer dressed up and taught fine manners by the countess, who wants to fool her prospective husband. Miss Velez proves she has not lost her energy. Comtesse Jetta Goudal's weak face and sloping shoulders are in the best idiom of the Second Empire. Best shot: Lupe Velez eating when she isn't hungry...
...playing at the Shubert. There have been rival contenders for this position of honor in the past; Harpo Marx runs through a nifty exhibition every time he appears, but even he must make way for Dr. Wynn in the latter's special sphere. He was the "Perfect Fool" par excellence, and now he has out-perfected perfection if such is possible...