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Fools for Luck. Well, if it isn't W. C. Fields and Chester Conklin, again. Goodness me, how those boys are turning out the cinemae. This time, Mr. Fields is an oil stock salesman from the big city. He dupes the folk of Huntersville, including its richest inhabitant (Mr. Conklin). But Nature, happily, brings oil to Mr. Fields' long dry wells. Slapstick, rather sour...
Metropolitan--W. C. Fields and Chester Conklin in "Fools For Luck"'. Funny in spots, but not what one ought to get from two comedians as good as these...
...Fields and Chester Conklin are the protagonists in "Fools for Luck", the Paramount comedy at the Metropolitan is week. The team performs much as usual in a picture based on the adventures of a slick promoter who comes to a small town with a get rich quick scheme. A grip full of oil stock, the beautiful daughter of Huntersville's leading citizen, small town life de luxe, all these things are mixed up in a rather ordinary film which has a few lsolated laughs and moments of spirited action...
...Fields has the role of the smooth tongued promoter who makes ordinary intelligent people pay good money for prettily engraved paper and smile about doing it. Chester Conklin is the substantial citizen who has a beautiful daughter, an unerring accuracy with a pool cue, and a wife with social ambitions...
...ushers for the occasion as announced last night by R. B. Gierasch '30, chairman of the dance committee, are R. W. Burgevin '29, J. M. French '29, F. W. Blatchford '30, C. S. Conklin '29, R. L. O'Brien '29, R. B. Gierasch '30, B. M. Parks '29, R. E. Forrester Jr. '31, J. R. Darling '30, William Worthington '29, and Stewart Boal '29. Gierasch is handling the tickets and subscriptions...