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...celebrity to write about. A friend (Robert Young) invents one, a glamorous Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, proficient dancer and tiger-shooter just back from India. Miss Matthews, having failed to impress a sleepy producer, poses as Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, startles London by riding down the Mall on a camel. Funniest sequence: Mrs. Smythe-Smythe is asked to demonstrate her shoot ing prowess at an Oriental party given in her honor; the gun, going off in her shaking hands, shatters a vase, knocks the cap off a musician's head, breaks a globe in the chandelier; a colonel of the Sixth...
...most spectacularly to a courtroom scene in which Longfellow simultaneously proves his sanity and regains the faith in the girl he loves (Jean Arthur) which he had lost on learning that she was the reporter who made him the city's laughing stock. The scene is consequently the funniest as well as one of the most spiritually nourishing cinema climaxes of the current season...
Laurel and Hardy, flushed by the success of "The Devil's Brother," their first venture into light opera, have taken another plunge into musical fantasy and come up with "The Bohemian Girl," unquestionably their funniest production to date...
Eventually the princess is restored to her father, but only after she has been rescued by Uncle Stanley, who is emboldened by several gallons of gypsy wine, absorbed inadvertently while he was bottling the liquid by a siphoning process. Incidentally, this bottling scene ranks as possibly the funniest we've yet encountered; and for an effective drug to ease you back to work after the pleasures of vacation, we can recommend nothing better...
...high spots of the show are reached in the two big ballet scenes. The Princess Zenobia ballet interlude is about the funniest thing this playgoer has ever seen. Starting with a majestic and dramatic emulation of a heavy dance-drama it rises to a genuine pitch of satirical excellence. "The Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" ballet gives Mr. Bolger fine opportunity to demonstrate his terpsichorean genius and ends up in a screamingly funny bit of farce. This Bolger fellow hasn't a peer in soft-shoe dancing...