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Another triumph for the peerless team of Fields, Rodgers & Hart, the plot is in the Once in a Lifetime manner, a succession of uncharitable laughs at the expense of Hollywood. Miss Lake and Mr. Whiting trek out from St. Paul to make good in the movies. Miss Lake-a lovely synthesis, one part Ginger Rogers, one part Ethel Merman-makes good first. Her fame permeates even the fastness of the Tennessee mountains, for in Scene 4 three backwoods girls (the talented, reedy-voiced Forman sisters) are aware that...
...Lived Next to the Firehouse. This burlesque reaches an eventful climax when a brigade of smoke-eaters, having individually secreted themselves in the home of a igth Century charmer, are roused out by a fire alarm, rush off to the blaze clad in long red-flannel underclothing. Main plot: a group of firemen are enamored of the lady who lives next door, court her privily when her husband (a traveling salesman) is away, are found out and have to explain their activities to their wives. To create atmosphere of the gay '90s, old wheezes are cracked, luxurious mustaches...
Quincian forbears were not so tolerant as Quincians of today, and on this idea hangs the Stokes plot, details of which were revealed last week. The hero is Wrestling Bradford, a young Puritan clergyman darkly obsessed with the beauty of Lady Marigold, fiancee of gay Sir Gower Lackland. While Wrestling is wrestling with his soul, Sir Gower and his sinful kind are having one of their maypole dances on Merry Mount. Later Sir Gower is killed outright by a Puritan. The village is attacked by Indians and the love-distracted Wrestling accuses Lady Marigold of witchcraft. As she is about...
Bright Lights (First National). Made a year ago, Bright Lights was put on the shelf, presumably because too many other pictures just like it were being released. Unfortunately, seasoning has only helped to shelve it permanently. Its backstage plot, its industriously plugged songs, its imperfect sound-recording, its imperfect technicolor, already are relics of a dead past in picture making. Dorothy Mackaill is good looking and Frank Fay fairly funny. The plot-a show girl who is about to marry a millionaire when her past, in the person of Noah Beery, turns up and threatens her happiness-is good enough...
...love that she kidnaps a little girl. Heimatsklänge is a travelog showing pretty views of Rotenburg, Dinkelsbühl, Wertheim, and Fussen; it is synchronized with German folk music. Gretel und Liesel is a good comedy about two sisters, one neat & kindly, the other shrewish, with a plot to give the kindly one a dowry...