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...Manhattan Parade" is little more than a vehicle for an endless procession of hilarious incidents, featuring Winnie Lightner, Paramount personality girl, less about forty pounds of her former charms, as the high powered executive of a costume company...
...Lenz-Culbertson test match was finally fixed at 150 rubbers. Mr. Culbertson will play a portion of the match with chic Mrs. Culbertson as his partner. His alternate partners will be Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz and Theodore A. Lightner. Mr. Lenz will play the entire match paired with Oswald Jacoby, member of the team which recently won the Vanderbilt Cup. Cocky Mr. Culbertson has backed himself with a $5,000 wager against $1,000 on the Lenz side. Culbertson winnings are promised to the New York Infirmary for Women and Children; Lenz winnings to the Unemployed...
...loudly and frequently. The local color is not new but it is fairly well done. The story itself, about two sisters, one an old trouper, the other a school girl on vacation, both of them attached to a handsome young barker, seems as moth-eaten as the lion. Winnie Lightner, hitherto blatant and unfunny comedienne, does well by the part of the elder sister. Charles Butterworth is also connected with the circus in some undefined and probably undefinable capacity. When he shells peas, they bounce out of the pot into which he drops them. In The Bargain (TIME, Sept...
There is another opus entitled "Sit Tight" with Winnie Lightner and Joe E. Brown. The advice of this reviewer...
...Life of the Party (Warner). People who feel humiliated when they find themselves laughing at comedy which bases its appeal on noise, cheap wisecracks, furniture smashing, the loss of trousers and similar devices will not enjoy The Life of the Party. It is a slapstick feature with Winnie Lightner and Irene Delroy as a pair of golddiggers who are discharged from a music store, raid a dressmaking establishment, and go to Havana looking for kind old men. It is stupid stuff, yet funny. Best line: a horse-racing Colonel (Charles Butterworth), seeing his entry turn around and run the wrong...