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Eddie Cantor's newest vehicle is a variegated whirlwind of good music, original dance arrangements, and exciting comedy plot. Taken from Clarence Buddington Kelland's Satevepost story "Dreamland," "Strike Me Pink" shows the Timid Soul, Mr. Pink (Cantor, of course) in his adventures fighting Crime in an Amusement park...
...Music Goes Round" is not nearly as bad as the Moviegoer expected, he is happy to report. Briefly the plot is about a Mississippi showboat troupe specializing in the presentation of old-Kentucky founds of the dime-novel variety. This troupe, almost on the financial rooks is rescued by the gallant Broadway star impersonated by Harry Richman. There are a number of humorous moments in the film and a few good songs...
Reginald Denny, with his nicely twisted gentleman's moustache is the man who somewhat naively solves "The Preview Murder Mystery." The plot hinges upon a cinema director's suspicion that his actress-wife, Gail Patrick, is in love with the hero of a film which he has just finished. Threatening notes warn the actor that he will never live through the preview, and true to form, he doesn't. Two more murders are committed before Denny, a movie publicity man, discovers the criminal. We warn you not to be too gullible in accepting obvious clues, because Paramount, Inc., is bent...
Winter sports run riot at the Fine Arts this week, restrained only by a tenuous plot and some inconsequential German dialogue. Brilliant performances of skiing, slalom (scooting downhill along sinuous paths among obstacles), ski-joring (skiing along the level with a horse doing the pulling), bob-sled racing, and skating are crammed into this virile, carefree picture called after one of the sports "Slalom...
...gentle age. Among the characters are the "conferencier a la mode", who cannot practice what he preaches; love; the countess whose strennous efforts to uphold the amenities are always failing; the pedantic and bespectacled English girl awkwardly seeking a husband; and many others of a similar comic "genre". The plot is one of clean drawing-room intrigue, arising from the misunderstanding of misplaced letters. And yet in spite of its conventional nineteenth-century machinery, the film is genuinely amusing. The lines are distinguished by their delightful penetration into the incongruities of human character; and they are spoken superbly...