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...husband's brokerage firm, Mrs. Wright turned her talents and reputation to moneymaking. Now fortyish and fervent, she directs a Monday afternoon radio variety hour, smokes large cigars, boasts of her collection of autographs ranging from that of "Johnnie" Pershing ("the General, you know") to those of "Cantor and the Divine Sarah...
...microphone with Clown Eddie Cantor stepped publicity-courting Minister of Transport Major Leslie Hore-Belisha last week. "Despite the greatest government and police activity." he reported, "there were 187 deaths on British roads during Christmas week, compared to 160 in the previous week." Shrilled Clown Cantor, after Major Hore-Belisha had appealed for more careful driving, "If I were a girl I would never let a boy drive with one arm around...
With his familiar eye-rolling and handclapping, Eddie Cantor prances through a dull, uninspired musical comedy extravaganza "Kid Millions" at Loew's Orpheum this week. The picture follows approximately the same comedy lines as did its predecessors, Eddie Cantor plays the same type of part and sings the same manner of songs, and as before myriads of luscious girls are whisked past the camera's lens in baffling geometric designs. If you liked these elements before you will probably like them again. As an extra special treat the final sequence is produced in gay Technicolor and handled as well...
...public has come to expect, the entire picture, is carried along on Eddie Cantor's shoulders. He gets off some of the oldest gags that we have heard in a major "comedy" production, but with his irresistably suggestive eyes he manages to get away with it and the audience seem to be tickled most of the time...
Though little is gained by comparison with his earlier pictures, it is hard to avoid the feeling that "Kid Millions" is not up to the usual Cantor...