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With the background provided by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the recorded voice of Enrico Caruso, Masquerade in Vienna" proves to be a pleasant enough bromide for thesis-writer headaches. Its advertised "delicate dallying" is mostly delicate, but an ingenious plot and capable acting compensate is any disappointment that might be felt of that account...
...Harnasie are wild mountaineers in the Carpathians. Szymanowski lived with them for long periods, decided to write a ballet-pantomime full of their folk dances, a wedding, a drinking song. All these he strung together on a slender thread of plot about a mountain chief who abducts a girl. In Carnegie Hall the work was not pantomime, but the rich singing of the Art of Musical Russia chorus made it splendidly dramatic...
...have seen this year, is that in which Miss Moore plays fairy godmother to a particularly unpleasant crowd of yelling children by singing an inane song in her strained, professionally cheery manner. The rest of the cast, Aline MacMahon, Cary Grant, and Luis Alberni suffer from the lack of plot, and juvenile dialogue...
...King Alfred proceeds from his customary breakfast of brandy direct to the Folies Bergere, where ennui induced by watching the can-can restores him to a stupor. On the advice of the ex-King's doctor, his ex-Chancellor and ex-lady-in-waiting (Mary Nash) hatch a plot to give him a new interest in life. This consists of persuading a chorus girl who momentarily attracts his attention to alter the monotony of his unvarying success with women by not falling in love with him. The plan has the desired effect upon the King but the chorus girl...
...Norman Krasna of The King and the Chorus Girl, may to some extent account for the picture's utterly amoral and pleasantly lucid lunacy. So may the fine comedy sense of Director Mervyn Le Roy, making his debut as a producer. Any added fillip given the story by plot resemblances to recent developments in European affairs can, since it went into production last October, be considered a happy accident, as can the facial resemblance of Actor Fernand Gravet to the Duke of Windsor when the Duke was a young and dashing Prince of Wales...