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Boyer plays the Little Corporal in the manner every actor under five feet ten has always dreamt of playing him. He pulls his forelock down, sticks out his upper lip, and shows a paunch (artificial). Magnificently he drives into Poland where, changing horses at a village near Marie's estate, he gets his first look at her. Count Walewski (Henry Stephenson) does not much care for the plan that his wife trade on the Emperor's interest to help Poland, but she tries it anyhow. When she interrupts Napoleon's ardors with a patriotic supplication, the Emperor...
...Tune Detective," points out in books and on the radio the similarity between I'm Always Chasing Rainbows and Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu, who can detect in Yes, We Have No Bananas elements of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls and Seeing Nellie Home...
Notable were George Frederick Belcher's humorous paintings. Of his I/ Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls he said last week, "It is a picture of a shabby though very happy gentleman who is obviously a street musician. He is at home, seated at his table. You can see he has been enjoying himself - there are heads and tails of her rings on a plate, a bottle which has contained stout, and a glass which betrays the fact that he has drunk the stout. There is also a half-empty packet of cigarets. The happy gentleman is all alone...
...excuse for Hermann E. Thomas' smear of green ice and orange sunset is its title, I Dreamt...
...original score and libretto, Balfe's opera has lost nothing by the addition of Mr. Hardy's slightly anachronous remarks, and Mr. Laurel's somnambulistic expressions. The production is beautifully mounted throughout and all the familiar music is there, although the audience is somewhat diverted during the song "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halis" by Hardy's face, which shines like an electric light bulb and Laurel's phlegmatic consumption of three breakfasts...