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...Mark of Zorro (20th Century-Fox). With an arthritic imitation of Douglas Fairbanks' sword-and-horseplay, Tyrone Power undertakes the leading role in a remake of Fairbanks' 1920 classic about a California Robin Hood who made things too hot for a dastard Spanish colonial governor. To pacify the Hays office, the Z-mark is carved only once on real flesh- on a man's chest instead of his forehead. (The Fairbanks version precipitated a nationwide rage for Z-cutting among small fry.) Basil Rathbone furnishes the dueling opposition for Power, Linda Darnell the fond glances...
...headless man carrying his head, a magician who scares Schenectady by materializing a goldfish bowl on his head, a "Lonesome Ranger" astride a goat, an invisible man who keeps appearing, and Brutus Blake (Maceo B. Sheffield), who holds a mortgage on Schenectady's hotel. Most of the horseplay centres around Brutus, who tears up floors and walls hunting for hidden gold, scares the chambermaid, gets chased by the gorilla, by his wife, makes love to lovely Lady Queenie (Margarette Whitten), the hotel's beautician. She runs around tripping over chairs, showing her well-turned calves. One line brought...
...free-&-easy place, The Lambs is better known for low horseplay than high wit. Most of its yarns concern some member who came in like a Lamb and went out like a light. There was, for example, the soused member who arrived at 3 a.m., just after the bartender had polished 300 glasses and stacked them on the bar. With a sweep of his cane, the drunk knocked all 300 off. He was suspended for six months, then returned at the same hour, in the same condition. "Why haven't you been around lately?" asked a friend...
...have traveled on trains with hundreds of troops, and I did not see a happy or cheerful face. They seem to talk very little with one another and there is not the slightest joking or horseplay...
Mexican Spitfire (RKO) adds old-fashioned horseplay and pie throwing to the timeworn comic mix-up of a henpecked U. S. husband impersonating an eccentric British lord, who keeps turning up at the wrong moment. The picture also tosses Lupe Velez, scratching and screaming in a tequila baritone, back into the U. S. cinemarena. Sample Velez quips, pointed up by prods, kicks, Mexican curses: "Shud up!", "Why don't you mind my own biz-ness?", "I'm just a big gallstone around his neck," "Shud...