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...Diggers of 1937 (Warners) is a type of cinemusical which nobody makes so well as the Warners. It lies half way between the song-trimmed anecdotes of the Astaire cycle and the compendiums of specialty acts that are the current fashion (see p. 22). There are always plenty of plot and plenty of dancing girls with curves in the right places. There is not too much gold-digging and, above all. the established ways of creating audience sympathy for leading characters are disregarded. Heroes and heroines of the Warner cycle demand your love by being either nincompoops or rascals...
...swimming pool. Yet this scene is very funny. So are the results when the villains, now desperate, hire Genevieve (Glenda Farrell) to excite J. J.'s passion, hoping the rise in blood pressure will kill him. But Genevieve falls in love with J. J., divulges the plot and J. J., seriously ill, backs the show with Norma, still unable to sing or dance, playing the lead...
College Holiday (Paramount) is one of those enormous, uninspired amalgamations of specialty numbers which Paramount issues periodically in the hope that sheer quantity will assure every cinemaddict of finding at least one item to his special taste. Strung out along a flimsy plot-about an eccentric dowager's scheme of turning her hotel into the scene of a eugenics experiment, and the hotel manager's counterscheme of supplying, as material for the experiment, young people capable of putting on entertainments that will attract paying guests-are a series of acts which show what has become of old-fashioned...
...young married woman who had met a "boyfriend" and made a "mistake." The resulting baby was disclaimed both by the woman's husband and by her acquaintance. Another woman convulsed Good Will Court listeners by wanting to cancel her husband's interest in a joint cemetery plot because he was serving a life term in prison...
...Hungarian woman, onetime secretary in the Hungarian Embassy in Egypt, with this clever, smooth novel written from a thoroughly international point of view. Chief distinction of The Street of the Fishing Cat is the ingenuity with which representatives of most of the European nations are drawn into its plot, the blistering irony with which social, political and national issues are satirized in its sentimental story...