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...which is now playing, its fourth week at Keith's Memorial, shows maestro Fred Astaire once again flinging his hoofs about with wild and graceful abandon. Unlike "Roberts," "Top Hat" is not a fashion parade, but concerns itself with a typical Fred Astaire pursult of a coy and suspicious Ginger Rogers, in the style of the "Gay Divorces...
Fred Astaire plays the part of a misunderstood and much abused bachelor whom the decorative Ginger Rogers mistakes for the husband of a friend. However the plot, such as it is, is unimportant, except as it provides opportunity for clever farcical dialogue and terpsichorean wooing by Fred Astaire...
...which captures the spirit of an intimate comedy, is a welcome relief from the colossal, and stupendously boring, dance spectacles. When Frod Astaire and Ginger Rogers are not delighting the eye by their dancing, Eric Blore and Everett Horton as butler and master tickle the risibilities with fast-paced dialogue. Helen Broderick, of "Band Wagon" fame, completes the triumvirate of finished comedians. The only bone the reviewer has to pick with the director concerning the whole production is that Helen Broderick was given such a relatively minor role...
Uncommonly busy at the Imperial seaside villa last week, Emperor Hirohito peered through his heavy spectacles at a bowing and scraping galaxy of advisers who finally decided how to dispose of the sword-murder by a junior officer, belonging to the Army's fire-eating "Ginger Group," of its more moderate Director of Military Affairs (TIME, Aug. 26). Last week's solution: un-Gingery old war Minister General Senjuro Hayashi "accepted responsibility," the Son of Heaven accepted his resignation, and new War Minister General Yoshiyuki Kawashima was hopefully called entirely neutral but more sympathetic to the Ginger Group...
...Dancer Astaire obligingly continues to offer cinemaddicts an inventory of the proficiencies which made him a stage star for ten years before civilized dancing reached the cinema. The picture contains a dance on a sanded rug, designed as a lullaby for the lady (Ginger Rogers) who lives on the floor below and who has gone upstairs to complain about the tap-dance that preceded it; an elaborate routine with male chorus, copied from one Astaire did in Smiles in 1930; a pretentious "Piccolino," which may or may not turn out to be the "Continental" of 1935-36. Possibly more ingratiating...