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...which she conducted an intrigue was positively exciting. Robert Breckinridge '34 was a highly amusing Hippolyte. Vernon Hodges '34 as Mr. Morris was sufficiently dapper and sophisticated. Some of the parts were somewhat overdone, rough spots in the acting were perhaps too often apparent. On the whole, however, the plot was clever and amusing, the presentation creditably done...
...movie is adapted from a story by Marcel Allard. The plot concerns itself with the vicissitudes of a young peasant girl, who is betrothed to a doctor, but runs away with her music teacher, and is married to him. The poverty of her husband, who is an opera singer, irks her and in despair over his jealousy she returns to the jilted doctor. Life with him is equally troublesome, and after another reversal of affections she again leaves him for the singer...
...constructed Destry Rides Again with his tongue in his cheek. Containing all the old trappings of silent pre-War Westerns, with a main street, a saloon entitled "The Golden Girl," a stage coach holdup, fast riding accompanied by studio clatter of horses' hoofs, it has the original plot about the hero running for sheriff, who is double-crossed by his supposed friends, with Right flourishing at the finish...
...evening gown caught in the door of a limousine and the crowd on the sidewalk turns the incident into a song-"Madame Has Lost Her Dress." The song runs through the rest of the picture and helps to give it the light-hearted mood necessary to make an old plot seem fresh and more than one old joke seem funny...
...very complicated plot is unwoven in a fairly smooth manner, with only an occasional rough spot. There are a few places which are rather improbable and unconvincing, to say the least. This is especially so in the final act, but on the whole everything goes off well enough...