Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greenlee and Drayton as few songs are ever done, with a limitless enjoyment by audience and actors alike, with syncopation in voice and gesture, and with humor in attitude and tonality. Throughout the dancing stands out, "Liza" is a dancing show. The finales are parables of pep. The cast is fairly popping with pep. And the orchestra, with rhythmic and clever orchestration, catches the spirit of jazz triumphant; "blues" paramount, and echoes it in syncopations of variety and charm...
...Drop Inn. This is a dancing show-whenever the plot lags or the music becomes too plaintively reminiscent of every other musical comedy of the year, the cast livens things up by bursting into a spasm of dancing :-and someone is dancing nearly all the time. Which is as it should be, for all the dancing is good, and James Barton's eccentric shuffling and fandangoing are incomparable. There seems to be practically nothing this stringy personage cannot do with his feet and legs-they are flexible as spaghetti-you feel that he could tie them behind his ears...
Some day, perhaps, every city of any importance in the country will have its own group of repertory-players. And there is a need for just that sort of thing. Not all the alarums and excursions of a possible American National Theatre with any sort of an all-star cast, situate exclusively in New York, could possibly take its place...
Once you forgive the producer of this film for his selection of some of the members of his cast, you can expend any amount of superlatives of praise upon the film...
...head, just to snow that a man can always trust an old friend, is perfect. We fear though that the hero and the villain left us totally unconvinced. Will Banion was about as graceful as the average opera star, and Sam Woodhull was just too lazy to live. The cast was not up to the setting as a whole, and this seems a shame. However the setting is the important thing in this picture and that is done remarkably finely. The thing of most significance being that none of the big scenes are obviously manufactured--nothing seems consciously thrown...