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...tedious' since he first used them in Strike Up the Band (1927). Brother Ira Gershwin's flair for writing silly repetitive lyrics no longer seems a sprightly burlesque of all lyric-writing. His lyrics often appear to be simply slovenly, lazy work. But Victor Moore is even funnier than he was in Of Thee I Sing. Dictator Wintergreen promises everybody cake when he gets to the Blue House. His successor promises caviar. When the counterrevolution takes place, Funnyman Moore saves himself from being guillotined and becomes President of the U. S. He promises pistachio ice cream...
...Love" is whimsical romance of the very best sort. Maurice Chevalier and Edward Everett Horton are a good deal funnier than they have been before, thanks to clever dialogue and a few gags which are on a level with those of Mr. Chaplin. In the direction by Norman Taurog you will find evidence that Rene Clair's technique has been imitated, and with considerable success. As movies go, "The Way To Love" should please everyone; it is never too subtle for the masses, for too serious for the classes...
...accent which Director Ernst Lubitsch* gives to scenes like this and the polish with which Young, Chevalier and Charles Ruggles act them, that make them much funnier than they have often been before. The plot of One Hour With You is not startlingly new. Director Lubitsch himself used it before in a silent cinema called The Marriage Circle, but this time he has given it a new informality, with tricks which other Hollywood directors are bound to imitate. Chevalier addresses the audience from time to time and tells them, to make sure that they understand the story, that...
...advertisement on the back cover was paid for, might well have been guessed by the casual reader. It showed the caricature of a Negro girl alongside the gum-slogan: "Makes the next smoke taste better." Other paid advertisements in the issue, more disrespectful to the product and much funnier, are harder to identify...
...marvellously funny. Admirers of Harpo Marx who, when he smiles, looks like a maniacal Charlie Chaplin, will be particularly pleased. He is still the funniest as well as the most versatile Marx. Young Zeppo is more active than usual but he seems a dullard in comparison to his funnier brothers. Zeppo (Herbert) Marx has always been embarrassed by the necessity for playing pallid roles which cause spectators to say that there are only three and one-half Marx brothers. When the Marx Brothers were playing Animal Crackers on the stage, Producer Sam H. Harris said...