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...King and the Chorus Girl (Warner Brothers) starts with a sequence in which a Paris doctor diagnoses the alarming coma of young ex-King Alfred (Fernand Gravet). "Never in my entire life," he tells the ex-King's ex-Chancellor (Edward Everett Horton), "have I ever seen anyone so completely drunk." Between this sequence and the picture's last, exhibiting an ocean liner at Niagara Falls, The King and the Chorus Girl whirls through a series of urbanely insane and expertly executed narrative gyrations which make it probably the most unique and certainly the most enjoyable light comedy...
...fine comedy sense of Director Mervyn Le Roy, making his debut as a producer. Any added fillip given the story by plot resemblances to recent developments in European affairs can, since it went into production last October, be considered a happy accident, as can the facial resemblance of Actor Fernand Gravet to the Duke of Windsor when the Duke was a young and dashing Prince of Wales...
...confusion of the conflict is heightened by the equivocal position of a certain Franz (Fernand Gravey), who is both the inseparable friend of Berr Strauss and the beau of the sprightly daughter of Herr Lanner. But whatever the vicissitudes of the Orphean entertainers, all goes well with the royal audiences. An exquisitely petite Queen Victoria (Madeleine Ozeray) gently outrages a bashful Prince Albert, until the music and the dance compel him to declare his suit. Hearts inter-twine for Vicey and her cousts...
Professor Philippe Fernand Baldensperger, chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature and internationally known for his work in that field, has accepted a half-time appointment as visiting professor at Brown University...
...some weeks has been the ugly rumor that sometimes the official tellers rig the count just a little bit, say five or six votes. Nobody else in the Chamber last week liked Félix's suggestion in the least. The frock-coated presiding officer, Monsieur le President Fernand Bouisson, refused to recognize him. When Felix made a dash for the tribune with a briefcase in his hand, President Bouisson, who had adjourned the Chamber for the day, scurried for the door, calling back over his shoulder, "You are out of order, the session stands adjourned...