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Actors Laye and Novarro sing pleasant but unremarkable Sigmund Romberg-Oscar Hammerstein II songs, one of which begins: "There's a riot in Havana, a famine in Tibet, a quake in Yokohama. ..." The Night Is Young would probably be less dull if Edward Everett Horton and Charles Butterworth were given more elbowroom for their dependable buffooneries. Driving Miss Laye through the streets in a pouring rain, Butterworth sneezes, says, "Well, the suspense is over now-I know I'm catching cold...
...reflection less on Hollywood than on that portion of the public which it will delight. Adapted from an unsuccessful play in which Tallulah Bankhead performed (TIME, March 13, 1933), produced with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's finest trimmings, it contains a few bits of expert comedy by Charles Butterworth. Worst shot: Dill Todd giving Mary Clay a ride on the handlebars of a borrowed bicycle, landing in a pigpen...
...Orleans, the Supreme Court of Louisiana, rejecting the opinion of a lower court that "parents who desire the blessings of the patter of little feet must be responsible for the damage done by little hands or, as in the case here, by little teeth," ruled that Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Butterworth were not liable for the action of their 3-year-old daughter Eva Camille who, in a "moment of rage," bit the arm of her Negro nurse...
...tree, beats his chest, yodels through his nose. The picture also contains a plot in which Durante functions as an outdoor cinema star entertaining a visiting big game hunter (Jack Pearl). Durante hopes to use Pearl's lions in his next picture. Guests at the party (Charles Butterworth, Laurel & Hardy, Polly Moran, Frances Williams, Jack Pearl's neanderthal assistants) break eggs on one another's heads, sing, insult one another, bid for a pair of the explorer's lions, watch a Mickey Mouse cartoon. Produced from a script by Arthur Kober and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Comedy by Charles Butterworth and a couple of good songs are the highlights in "Cat and the Fiddle," sweet little romance starring Ramon Novarro and the perennially young Jeanette McDonald. Ramon and Jeanette are student musicians in Paris. Jeanette has money and Ramon has talent, which facts interfere with the smoothness of the course of true love. He wants to put over his operetta in order to make some money before he marries her. She interprets his desire as selfishness and lack of interest in her, and consequently finds herself another fiance, a gentleman who has the money and influence...