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Musical Comedy Plot...
...plot revolves around the loyalties of the three persons involved. The young man (Ben Lyon) wants to marry the actress. He is unable to do so because he owes a debt of gratitude to her lover (Lewis Stone). These complications are resolved when the older man retires from the situation in a Monte Carlo setting. He is last seen standing on the deck of his yacht, drinking a toast to the young man and the actress who remain ashore...
...profound piano-teacher; beautiful Actress Rose Grogarty; Mr. Gambrino, carousel-pro-prietor with operatic ambitions; Miss Arbuthnot, acidulous Australian novelist; Mrs. Connor, thrifty but romantic hairdresser; possessive Tycoon Julian Heaven-street; Mrs. Heavenstreet, who felt herself to be a woman but was all bound round with committees. The plot is artificial but, as in real life, the puppet-characters are pulled by strings of desire. Tycoon Heavenstreet wants to protect beautiful Miss Grogarty; Hairdresser Connor wants to possess romantic Mr. Gambrino. With the help of Spring, a merry-go-round and Robert Nathan, the fable ends fabulously well, not with...
...burlesque became highly subtle comedy. As for Frederic March, he gave a caricature of John Barrymore that was so high-spirited and frankly satirical that he practically swept the play off its feet every time he made his appearance; all of which was a considerable help to a limping plot. The hero of the love element, fortunately not very important, was best characterized by a remark of a young lady in the audience who remarked in a loud tone as he first appeared on the screen, "Wait until she sees him!" The surprise could not have been over-whelmingly pleasant...
...Opera. In the centre of the development is an open plaza, to north and south are identical 45-story office buildings. Because of the mass of theatrical traffic, it was originally planned that the entire subterrain of the development would be used for parking space. At least one parking plot will be built, but because of ventilation problems and fire hazard, one of the unclassified buildings may be converted into a parking tower...