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...around frightening virgins out of their wits on the silent screen. On the operetta stage it somehow fails to click. A possible explanation lies in the choice of Walter Slezak, whose big act is chubby artlessness, to play the part of the psychiatrist. Mr. Slezak was the amiable bumpkin in Music in the Air. And most spectators will find it hard to understand why such a handsome brunette as Nancy McCord ultimately dismisses Baritone Walter Woolf King (formerly Walter Wolf) in favor of Tenor Slezak...
...publications-Crimson, Advocate, Lampoon. He asked questions when he accompanied his father to newspaper conventions, and when, after graduation in 1920, he started on the Register & Tribune as a plain reporter. He still asks questions wherever he goes, on his frequent visits to Manhattan and Washington. No corn-fed bumpkin, no dallying rich-man's-son. inquisitive John Cowles has stored behind his thick-lensed glasses and his moon face a wealth of essential fact. An excellence of perspective on top of a sound judgment makes him one of the most important young newspaper publishers in the land...
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Music in the Air (Fox) A small-town girl (June Lang) is tried out for the starring role in a musicomedy and for once, does not succeed. Nor does she jilt her bumpkin boy friend (Douglass Montgomery), although for a moment or two it seems likely that he will succumb to the wiles of Gloria Swanson. Instead of Broadway, the scene is Bavaria and instead of jazz the music is a sort of operetta through which continuously looms the grave, of fended shade of Victor Herbert. Music in the Air is principally important for providing Miss Swanson, 36, with...
...lock without a fight. A quarrel with Jotham and a sudden turn of good luck for Dan sends Molly into the kitchen of Dan's Sarsey Sal. A tranquil panorama by Currier & Ives, The Farmer Takes a Wife becomes emotionally articulate only when Molly is trying to infect her bumpkin beau with her passion for The Big Ditch...