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George S. Kaufman's book is far from being good and the plot of the show is too foolish to mention. There are songs and dancing, the former less remarkable than the latter. But Harpo, when he is through playing the harp, peers like a prisoner through the strings of his instrument; he pursues a girl quietly wherever she goes; his are light fingers as well as light touch and he picks pockets with dexterous greed; on meeting a new person, he offers his leg to be held and he whistles strangely...
...keep the star changing her costumes; 2) have her fall down a lot; 3) hire a funny subtitle writer. In this routine picture of a chorus girl in love with a country boy, Bebe Daniels gets no mud on her clothes although all other devices for bolstering the plot are liberally used. Onetime chorine Lilyan Tashman, as the musical comedy star who leads Rube Neil Hamilton to her Fifth Avenue house, acts better than Miss Daniels...
...Robe," at the Shubert, gets under way in the second and third, and areas through to a place well up among the "Vagabond kings" and "Student Princes" of historical musical comedy. Its source is "Under the Red Robe," the novel of twenty years ago by Stanley Weyman, and its plot, if you are a stickler about things like that, is so definite as to inspire bold-faced play acting by Cardinal Richelieu, in the person of Jose Ruben. Add his name to the sedentary principals who have dared do their historical atmosphere well, and have gona unapplauded...
...Skeleton plot: a college youth, on the eve of marriage, is informed that one of his old extra-campus acquaintances has given birth to a child of which he is the father. He therefore proposes marriage to the brat's mother who impudently refuses, preferring to study art in Paris. The youth discovers his child in a foundling hospital and steals it; he is pursued by the daughter of a boardinghouse keeper and also by his fiancee. Too soon, it seemed to the audience, weary of their company, Norman Overbeck made amends with his original flame and they were...
...lengths to which musical comedy maestros will not venture in the effort to achieve a novelty. In this one, for example, the orchestra is made up of women; the idea would have been a good one if the women could have been taught to play properly. The plot is about a chorine who resists luxurious temptations and achieves fame without undue frivolity...