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...Ford (Dearest Enemy) laced herself into a high old-fashioned corset, powdered herself suggestively and came forth to pipe his pet coloratura aria with comically fluttering eyelids and exaggerated soubrette wiggles. But these things supplied the few bright intervals in this latest of many versions of Die Fledermaus. The plot is the same old one : a rich, stuffy Viennese (Tenor George Meader), sentenced to a week in jail, first takes an evening off, goes to a party where he becomes foolishly involved with his chambermaid (Helen Ford) and his wife (Peggy Wood) whom he ogles without recognizing. The adapters...
...School for Husbands (by Jean Bkaptiste Poquelin [Moliére]; Theatre Guild, producer). Of the Moliére play, the Theatre Guild has made a musicomedy for highbrows. The plot of the two middleaged brothers who woo their young wards with indulgence and tyranny is the same in which France's King Louis XIV played a small part in 1664. The dialog has been jingled by Poetaster Arthur Guiterman and Guild Director Lawrence Langner. Guiterman has written neatly lyrical doggerels to be sung to songs based on old French folk-tunes and bergerettes. Able Dancers Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman...
Some plays are popular because of the fierce excitement brought about by a succession of crises in the plot. Others attract the public because the characters are well-known and likeable. "The Late Christopher Bean" is of this latter genre. With Miss Lord it seems to do well...
...Lady For A Day," the featured picture at the University, blazons forth its moderate virtues through the medium of a cast of minor stars and just plain minors. Its plot is one of the usual far-fetched affairs, which are so extremely improbable that one is willing to over-look analysis and confine himself to a sort of comatose reception of stimuli: it deals with the harrowing experiences of old Apple Annie, who, poverty-stricken in New York, has been keeping her daughter in Europe in the belief that her mother is a fancy lady, of the haut monde...
...Turn Back the Clock," the other movie, shows Lee Tracy and very little else. The plot I shan't attempt to explain; it involves something about a dream, which takes the place of the real life of the characters, and something about a man who goes back and lives his life over, thereby being able to predict stock crashes and do other uncommon things. It is lively enough to watch, at least if you like the great Tracy; and the antics of snake-hips Karen Morley should entertain those renegades who won't listen to Doctor Worcester...