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Shoemakers' plots are mightily involved even though the play has been cut to about half its length. One thread of plot entangles Rowland Lacy (Joseph Gotten) who, instead of going to war in France, disguises himself as a journeyman in order to woo his lady. Other plotters are Vincent Price and Edith Barrett, whose contributions to the high cockalorum are good, but occasionally strained. The real heroes are the shoemakers themselves, and the best of these jackanapes in droopy drawers and flapping codpieces is Hiram Sherman. His finegrained playing of low comedy won him a first-night ovation...
...three different women,--as a Spanish marquesa, an Indian princess, and a petite French blonde (which part seems most natural); it is more disturbing to have her moved from Paris to Monte Carlo to the yacht "Seagull" to Pringle's-by-the-Thames in one plot...
...producers find a certain amount of difficulty in fitting in the dance sequences without straining the plot, but Astaire has to be given a chance to dance somewhere. Burns and Allen assist him in a couple of his dance scenes and are generally able to keep up to his nimble feet...
Addicts of light opera might be offended by a humorous or credible plot. Three Waltzes in this respect is singularly inoffensive. Its charm lies in tuneful music, ebullient singing and dancing, vivid staging. In a ballet school, with costumes after Degas, begins the luckless romance of the ballerina (Kitty Carlisle) and Count Rudolph (Michael Bartlett). In Paris of 1900 the same pair appear as another ill-starred couple, with the ballet converted into Toulouse-Lautrec girls doing a violent cancan. At last, in a contemporary cinema studio, the lovers, as descendants of their former selves, find their happy ending...
FADE OUT-Naomi Jacob-Macmillan ($2.50). The third importation in a year of a prolific, English popular novelist: this one about a playwright and an actress, in a plot which only the proverbial rich grandmother can straighten...