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Wife, Doctor and Nurse (Twentieth Century-Fox) is an amazingly fresh version of the triangle indicated in its tired title. That any plot as old as this (most recent prior use: MGM's Between Two Women) can be given a new dress is a minor miracle of screen technique. It has been achieved by application of the dramatic law which holds that any situation becomes new if the characters involved make it inevitable. Steve (Virginia Bruce) never asked herself whether she loved her boss, Dr. Judd Lewis (Warner Baxter) until the day his young wife Ina (Loretta Young) took...
...Ritz Brothers, they haven't added any new stuff. Which is not to say they are declining but simply that they haven't improved. Familiarity breeds disinteredness, and certainly these three zanies are in their specialty number easier to resist than they were a year ago. Funniest is their plot work. Best of all their entrance, when, seated at a piano, one suddenly arises, and the others slide off an upset bench onto the floor...
...rest, the plot is girl meets boy, girl gets boy, boy looses girl, winn(ing)er take all, or something to that effect. As the successful Broadway producer, Charles Winninger turns in the most believable performance. He is the peg from which are hung the story's numerous coats and vests. Round him revolve the successful musicomedy author, Don Ameche, the would-be writer of tragedy, Alice Faye, the nigger in the woodpile, Gypsy Rose Lee, alias Louise Hovick, stooges just stooges, the Ritz Brothers, and incidentally Rubinoff and his violin...
Everyone may have done his best, but the task of spreading plot and characterization evenly has proved too difficult...
Also on the program is "Marry the Girl," with Hugh Herbert and Mary Boland, which is neither more nor less than what is expected. Each player overdoes his specialty giggle in a trite plot...