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...Soudeikine which looks vaguely edible, Forbidden Melody unfolds a tangled tale of intrigue and counter-intrigue revolving about the return of King Carol of Rumania to his throne. No one impersonating buck-toothed Carol appears, however, and there is no trace of his red-headed familiar, Magda Lupescu. Sample gag: "Will you pardon me?" "Why certainly-what have you done...
...wreckage Mr. Catchings left behind him in Goldman Sachs was appalling. Market value of Goldman Sachs Trading shriveled from $500,000,000 to less than $10,000,000. Funnyman Eddie Cantor, who lost a sizable fortune in the stock, made the name of Goldman Sachs a sure-fire gag from coast to coast. Law suits received so much publicity that Wall Street pranksters used to call up Goldman Sachs, ask for the "litigation" department...
...anything--Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, and the dewy-eyed heroine not excepted. The dance numbers are too fragmntary to deserve criticism. The songs are doggerel. The conventional comedy quartet is so bad it has to resort to camera tricks. But Frank McHugh comes through with one good gag, and there is some bedroom slapsticking worth watching
...foster patriotism, and to serve the country in peace as in war, the Legion has backed teacher's oath bills, attempted to gag the press, and indulged in countless notable examples of fair play such as the recent silencing of Mr. Browder...
...archery practice by a floorwalker, a couple of corpses and Ted Healy as a police sergeant, fumbling helplessly with a service revolver. At the root of it all are the activities of a ring of crooks who have been using the store as a cache for stolen goods. Best gag: the murderer's mob, coming to his rescue in police uniforms, set upon with pails and mops by a group of berserk scrubwomen whom they had tied in the basement...