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...between a crusty society dame (Mona Barrie) and poor, but nonetheless faithful, love (Alice Faye). True love wins out in the end, of course, for while Park Avenue wilts him and jilts him, love makes a fortune dancing in London and stakes him to his theatrical comeback. Though the plot creaks mildly in spots, the cracks of Jack Oakie, the dancing of Alice Faye, and several good songs ("I've Got My Fingers Crossed," "I'm Shooting High") manage to hold it together for the final embrace. But we would not care to dine in Warner's night club, with...
Lily Pons is not an actress and the plot "I Dream Too Much" is impossibly stupid but her voice is so fine that it almost compensates for the poor construction and amateurish acting of the whole cast. The only exception should be made for Eric Blore who is back as the owner of a wonderfully entertaining trained seal. The second time we "saw" the picture we sat in the lobby and enjoyed it much more than while looking at Miss Pous' rather unattractive face...
...outline of the play revolves around a triangle plot among Kitty Brown, played by Jean Miles of Wellesley, and Bobby Brown, and Dierdre Lesving, played by Emile Dreyfus...
...Humphrey and Charles Weidman have a following second only to Martha Graham's. Essentially they have the same credo, the same vigorous pace, the same inner urge to let the body speak for itself. Average theatre audiences can appreciate a Humphrey-Weidman recital, see frequent glimmers of a plot that can be translated into words. Though Martha Graham is intent on typifying the U. S. spirit, she is more consistently abstract. Her face is like a mask when she dances. For Frontiers her principal gesture is to raise one leg, rest it on a fence...
...Thinking Reed is a love story but few men will take it as a Valentine. The plot: Isabelle, half-U. S., half-French, is a very beautiful, quite rich widow at 26. She has come to France to get away from haunting memories of her aviator husband, recently killed in a crash. Thanks to her French connections she meets aristocratic, smoothly handsome André de Verviers, and because his physical attraction is extreme, takes him as a lover-antidote. At the time her story opens she has discovered that as a person she dislikes him intensely but cannot...