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Metropolitan--"Footlight Parade." James Cagney, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, and Joan Blondell in a repitition of "Forty-Second Street...
...waterfall and diving-platform. While still immersed, Warners' geometrical water-babies arrange themselves further into formations resembling a caterpillar unfolding its legs, a zipper-fastener opening & closing. On dry land they conduct their usual gyrations on a flat stage, on glittering pedestals and in a cafe where Ruby Keeler, in Chinese makeup, does a tap dance on a bar. Although the cinema code has not yet been signed, Hollywood productions, wherever possible, contain compliments for the NRA. In Footlight Parade, a line of marching soldiers fades irrelevantly into a U. S. flag. The flag fades into a portrait study...
...routines, finds that his rival promptly steals them. The novelty in the backstage romance in Footlight Parade consists in having it occur not in the wings of a theatre hut in a cinema studio where James Cagney is the dance director, Joan Blondell his affectionate secretary, Ruby Keeler his star tap-dancer, Dick Powell his best juvenile, Guy Kibbee his fenag-ling partner. Philip Faversham, son of famed William Faversham who was a matinee idol 30 years ago, has a bit, his second cinema part, as a frightened hoofer. The developments leading up to the dances and the NRA take...
...Diggers of 1933 in plot, pattern and environment; that it has the same type of dances, staged by Bobby Connolly, and the same type of songs ("Dusty Shoes'" for a finale instead of ''Forgotten Men"); or that its ingenue, Mary Brian, not only looks like Ruby Keeler but has obviously been coached to. speak in the same soft monotone. The surprising aspect of Moonlight and Pretzels is that it makes plausible Hollywood's profound conviction that repetition is the secret of success. It copies Warner Brothers' two hits even to the extent of being handsome...
...extent to which Colyumist Winchell said he was damaged when he was struck and felled last month in Hollywood's Legion Stadium by Singer Yoelson, disturbed over reports that Winchell's new scenario (Broadway Through a Keyhole) was discreditable to his wife, Ruby Keeler (TIME, July...