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...television will make tom-peeping completely, universally possible; any mention of the prim old-fashioned girls of 1930 will be regarded as funny. In 1980, however, musical comedies will still be full of jokes that have been doing service for years; songs will not have improved; heroines will be coy and leading men pompous. These suggestions spectators will absorb from De Sylva, Brown & Henderson's mechanically amusing musi-comedy. A theme which has been useful to H. G. Wells and Jules Verne they have executed in the fantasies of a tired vaudeville booking-agent. Just Imagine is much...
...played with Tom Shevlin and I think the world will never see a better end. . . . What a job . . . Pennock [did to us] in 1912. . . . Ticknor's performance last Saturday was superb, tremendous, but considering the three-year record . . . I played with Ted [Coy] and he was a marvel. He'd just run through them and the tacklers would fall aside, a lot of them with broken bones. . . . The greatest player I have ever seen? . . . Eddie Mahan. . . . The greatest Big Three team since 1904? . . . My 1923 team had a slight advantage over the others...
...consistent with his conception of it. Ian Keith, as the half-mad, half-drunk actor-assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is as macabre and satanic as a character by Edgar Allan Poe; General Grant (E. Alyn Warren) is good too. Disappointments are the too-pious Robert E. Lee and too-coy Una Merkel as Ann Rutledge...
...inherited $10,000,000 in negotiable treasure from his bomb-smitten father, the great Chang Tso-lin. Smart Son Chang is an ally whom any Chinese government would give its eye teeth to possess but to the overtures of both Nationalists and Northerners, Smart Son Chang has ever been coy as a chipmunk...
High Society Blues (Fox). How little Janet Gaynor's success in character studies of wistfully romantic young girls depended on physical attractiveness is illustrated by this unsuccessful musicomedy. Her coy little voice and frail attempts to assume the spontaneity and vitality proper to a prima donna never give the story what it needs. It is all about a rich young girl who was supposed to marry a count she did not love and who finally eloped with Charles Farrell in a white Ford. Silliest line (by Farrell, after a tedious love-scene spent entirely in singing the theme-song...