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...Kick Off," the present attraction at the Paramount theatre is a relief to football fans who have been nauseated by the prevailing type of gridiron films, because it combines a credible plot with a more than vivid sketch of a real football game. The crowd, the mud--oh, that mud--and the boisterous enthusiasm contribute to climax the picture with a thrill. One might well offer the management of the theatre that, in order to provide atmosphere it put its renowned cooling system into operation and require the patrons to wear their overcoats...
...needs must be said that it succeeds in this if in nothing else. The picture has already been reviewed but for those latecomers who missed it, let it be said that it has Jimmy Cagney's stacatto, Joan Blondell's blondness and Ruby Keeler's senseless simper. The plot means nothing. You can see the show and understand it if you drop in while waiting for the subway. If you like spectacles, extravagance in settings and the aforementioned galaxy of stars, there should be no complaint with "Footlight Parade...
...plot: A real Baron Munchausen, sailing into New York Harbor, cannot appear because he has heard that the husband of his mistress is on board. He exchanges identities with the ship's tailor, Jack Pearl, who promptly takes on a manager, Jimmy Durante. In a rain of ticker-tape, as thousands cheer, the two impostors ride expansively up Broadway. When Pearl recognizes the fundament of his Aunt Sophie who is washing a window, he plunges head-down in the automobile and Durante, with a vulgarity at once extravagantly bold and strangely shy, notes the family resemblance. In a broadcasting...
...body of a beautiful young girl on a main highly on the serene island of is the occasion which sets in the adroit, speculative activities of the efficient Hamilton office force. With only a label, a bunch of lilies and empty scabbard as clues, the skillfully goes on to plot a in which surprise follows . with engaging regularity we find before us a story which a welcome freshness and originality...
Notwithstanding the depreciatory comment on the plot, as I have said already, "Broadway Through A Keyhole" has its better points. If you can detach yourself from the story, You will enjoy this film. Frances Williams sings one song and makes you wish that she were given more opportunities to display her talent. Eddie Foy, Jr., and Constance Cummings do a number to a John Reld, Jr. background entitled "when you were the girl on the skooter and I was the boy on the bike." It is one of the best that I have seen in the musical movies. Then there...