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...balding, sharp-eyed Philosopher Georgy Fedorovich Aleksandrov had been Russia's No. 1 ideological vigilante. In the magazine Bolshevik, and his fortnightly paper, Culture and Life, he had denounced novelists, playwrights, journalists, artists, cinema directors for pernicious ideological errors. Last week his smarting victims could loose a Homeric guffaw-Aleksandrov himself had been popped onto a hot critical griddle...
...combines a trite comedy plot with a cheap comedy trick. The little rich boy decides to play Master Fixit in a counselors' sagging romance - and pinches a textbook on sex. Thereafter, out of the mouth of babes comes a good deal for a certain kind of grownup to guffaw...
Though this is a film that should draw a guffaw or two from all but the most sedate, the humor all too frequently descends to either the crudest of slapstick or aged witticisms of the "who was that lady I saw you with last night" ilk. But Hope seems to have the uncanny ability of wringing a smile of some sort out of the Himsiest of material, by means of a sidelong leer, a sucer, or a facial contortion. And it's pleasant to see Hollywood give one of its standard plot formulas a genuine kidding for a change. They...
...contains little except the sort exemplified in a game of footie between two younkers known as Daisy Bell (Cecile de Lucas) and Thad Calhoun (Larry Sherman). Its long suit is actually scatology - lice, bedbugs, belches, outhouses, bare and dirty feet planted on the breakfast table. These intended guffaw-getters are complemented by such basic hillbilly humors as drunken lechers, gabbling halfwits and twitching hags...
...Ministry of Bubbleblowing denied yesterday, with an oath, that the 15,000,000 missing hasps had been found in a field near Asminster. Mr. Guffaw said, 'We know where these hasps are, but cannot reveal their whereabouts at present.' To reporters he hinted that the zoning of washerwomen was responsible for much of the confusion. 'These washerwomen,' he said, 'are left in heaps at the packing-stations, where they quickly go bad.' Asked if he was not confusing washerwomen with eggs, he said...