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Lusty is the word for "We're Going to Be Rich", which is saved from mediocrity by the all-Albion sweetheart, Gracie Fields, whose entertaining is a relic from another day of noisy music halls and bar-room brawls...
...Thorns and Orange Blossoms", a super-melodrama of the Gay Nineties period, is of the same school of "Ten Nights in a Bar-room" and "East Lynne", and business manager Peter Rabenold '37 guarantees that there will not be a dry eye in the house at the finish of the tragic third act, Delta Upsilon actors will take the parts of hero, villian, heroine, will do their utmost to see that virtue triumphs over evil...
From the little tidbits that drift into our hands now and then, it is quite apparent that the ball team took more than a passing interest in the Japanese girls and what is told of open-air baths and bar-room entertainers furnishes plenty of excuse for the six defeats...
...Nights in a Bar-Room (Roadshow Productions). In cities where drinking is the principal source of humor for a large social class this tract has been successful when presented as burlesque. There is nothing burlesqued in the picture and the serious mood makes it funnier than any burlesque could be. It is funny in an amiable, homely way, as if long before the sound-device or Prohibition had ever been heard of a company had somehow made Ten Nights in a Bar-Room with sound and revived it now as a gentle souvenir of the cinema technique as well...
There is also the roaring command "Everybody to the bar! The drinks are on the house!" Immensely funny are the exaggerated writhings of William Farnum's conscience as the battle for his soul goes on between Little Mary and the Demon Rum. Funny is the frail barroom, which trembles as if it were about to go to pieces at the first premonition of the great fight scene. That these excellences are unintentional in no way detracts from the power of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. Yet there is pathos in it too, for William Farnum and Thomas Santschi used...