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Anyone who has not yet seen "Swing Time" should correct that definitely. Containing some of the best music to which Astaire and Rogers have danced, it is not hampered by a trivial thing like a plot, which after all, has no place in a musical comedy. The dancing is, of course, superb. Miss Rogers has learned in a relatively short time to swing with the very best, and her efforts no longer have that strained, forced effect that was noticeable when she was chasing in Mr. Astaire's wake two or three years...
Unfortunately director Leroy devotes a lot of film to developing this profusion of plot, and the impact of the central idea is lost. Anthony is a tragic figure hounded by misfortune. He is unable to take his bride to Havana because a letter she leaves him is blown away by the wind. Business conditions force him to spend many years in Africa while he loses touch with his wife. When the lovers are finally united she has become so compromised in court intrigue and gossip that she cannot join him in America. The great ambition of the orphan...
...Douglas does his best, but he can't sustain the pace set by Miss Dunne. Her light yet distinguished touch together with the play's witty writing metamorphose the hackneyed plot into a superb if insignificant, "modern comedy...
...accepted current technique, but were played partly on U. S. C.'s fields, partly in the Rose Bowl, partly on a gridiron built on the Paramount tank stage. The resulting action shots are the clearest of the current football picture cycle, a verisimilitude unfortunately not shared by the plot...
...successful, the audience completely gives up the ghost and settles back to enjoy the really outstanding performance of Alan Mowbray, who has found his forte in the field of comedy. As a clever magician suffering from the horrible disease of "polydigitalis" he offers a welcome relief from the plot...