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...kept repeating "Cigaret me, big boy!" in Young Man of Manhattan. She plays expert ping-pong, likes to speak pig-Latin, dislikes exhibiting her feet. We're Not Dressing (Paramount). This picture may suggest tremendous new possibilities to producers. Stranded on a desert isle, an heiress (Carole Lombard) and a sailor (Bing Crosby) give credit where due by remarking that their situation resembles that outlined in The Admirable Crichton. This is an exaggeration, for Sir James Matthew Barrie did not trouble to put a trained bear, a tame crooner, Burns & Allen and two mercenary Georgian princelings into his play...
Built around, and sustained by the sensuous strains of Ravel's "Bolero," this film loses much of its effect when the rendition of the feature scene fails to come up to the mark. The recurrence of appealing waltzes and tangoes with the accomplished dancing of George Raft, Carole Lombard, and Frances Drake, and the absence of leg extravaganzas and water scenes, combine to make it a picture considerably above the average of musical revues...
Raft's rise from coal miner, gigolo, and cabaret performer, to night club owner is accomplished by his repeated refusal to mix business with pleasure, firing his dancing partners when they interfere with his consuming desire to be famous. Becoming a sensation in London and Paris with Helen (Carole Lombard), he enters the World War as a publicity stunt, expecting the fracas to be ended in a few weeks. Helen loses her hero-worship, and marries an English noble...
University--"Bolero". George Raft and Carole Lombard in a colorful, musical movie featuring Ravel's aphrodisiac masterpiece. The music by the way is played too fast. "Six of a Kind". Charlie Ruggles nonsense to relieve weary eyes. W. C. Fields steals the show...
Contrary to earlier published reports, the organization of the club is under the supervision of an executive committee of five: including, George Lombard 1G., Hamilton Young 1G.S., Albert Pratt 1L., Edward Parish '36, and Andrew Marshall '34. Since there are several second class skiers in the club, the first team will be made up largely from this class. The candidates include: Herbert Sise '34, A. Eliot Ritchie '34, J. U. White '34, Adams Carter '36, Colin MacLaurin, Albert Sise, and Marshall...