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...Merry Widow (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the third and by far the best cinema version of Franz Lehar's famed operetta. The first was a two-reel monstrosity in which the late Alma Rubens and Wallace Reid performed in 1912. In 1925 Erich von Stroheim directed Mae Murray and John Gilbert in the second. Cinemaddicts who have seen all three are likely to find the current version, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, as far superior to the second as the second was to the first. Only the most captious critics could find any fault with a picture which fairly entranced...
...minutes before the play's end a pert usher in a pert brown cap and close-fitting brown bodice utters her first and almost her last line: "Gee whiz, Mae was like delirious. She kept laughing and saying it was a big joke. Her baby's got no father." The pert usher is played by Jean Bellows, daughter of the late great Artist George Bellows...
Paramount and Fenway: "Bellc of the Nineties"--Mae West gets her second showing in Boston when she appears at the Paramount and Fenway in this rather boisterously amusing tale of the ever so gay nineties. Also "Big Hearted Herbert", telling the story of a boorish, self-made man and his conversion by members of his family to the amenities of life, is included on the bill. Guy Kibbee has the leading role in this picture, which is taken from the play of the same name...
...like the Mae West type. . . . The kind of film in which Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor and Victor Moore appear is what we have in mind...
Metropolitan: Mae West as the coy and winsome "Belle of the Ninetles" Some good cracks and a lot of Mae in all sorts of situations. Good if you like the buxom...