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Playwright Kelly's famous portrait of a braggart is still an amusing one. If The Show-Off seems protracted now, it seemed already diluted in 1924, for in an earlier and more brilliant form it was a vaudeville sketch. But its best bits are among the funniest of all tilting at windbags. The strutting $32.50-a-week clerk, who is neither cowed by the law he flouts nor squelched by the mother-in-law he infuriates, is most alive when most farcical. Lee Tracy plays him with noisy but un-brutal gusto, making him far more ham than horror...
...Lampoon is at its best when it provides illustrations for its stories. In this particular case, the fine line pictures add greatly to the humor of the text. Train's article, "Pour Le Sport" is a treatise on how to play tennis properly in different foreign countries. This, the funniest of the current lot, is in the tradition of other foolish articles like "The Art of Testmanship" which appeared last year...
Love Happy (United Artists) is a Marx Brothers comedy with too little of Groucho's irreverent wit and too much of Chico's irrelevant Italianate chatter. It gets most of its laughs from a welcome abundance of Harpo's funniest clowning in years...
...efficiency expert who started married life with a determination to have twelve children and forthwith realized this goal. Like all his predecessors in the history of household autocracy, Gilbreth's strongest quality is his refusal to be cowed by the social practices of his neighbors. The movie's funniest scenes center around his demands that the women in the family wear bathing suits that cover their knees and his insistence that the chaperone his eldest daughter at her first prom. Unlike the ordinary father-figure, Gilbreth is an efficiency engineer by profession. His faith in the part that time-study...
...country, and, Lord knows, it needs to be swept. But I think Arthur must be doing it with a short-handled broom-he's nearer the dirt than most people." To Allen, Godfrey is a sign of the times: "Millions of people think he's the funniest guy alive, but their standards are open to question. This is an age of mediocrity. Anything mediocre is bound to be a success. As we get more regimented, there are fewer Tiffanys and more Woolworths...