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Loew's State--"Naughty Marietta...
...happen to be in a light opera mood, the screen rendition of "Naughty Marietta" now playing at Loew's State will please the ear and delight the eye. Jeannette MacDonald, lush and smiling, is at her best as the French princess who flees to New Orleans to escape a rich but gouty husband-elect. In the part of the mercenary Captain who conquers her heart in the New World, Nelson Eddy makes his first bow before a cinema audience which will no doubt place him among its stars. The new addition to the firmament has a pleasingly masculine personality...
...when she sails with the "casket brides" sent to bewive the men of New France, the effect is bright, colorful and joyfully inane. The damp scenes occur when things attempt to become serious. A Gilbert and Sullivan opus maintains a strain so consistently absurd that it is convincing; "Naughty Marietta" is only sporadically mad, and disturbs the audience by its sudden lapses into sanity. During the voyage to New Orleans, for instance, the cargo of maidens falls into the hands of pirates. These fellows, as villanous a crew as ever infested Penzance, leave their winsome booty strangely inviolate until...
...sentimental cinema that it may well make cinemaddicts wonder why Hollywood's operetta impresarios bother to invent stodgy plots for their productions instead of adapting the up-to-date inventions of the past. Admirers of Victor Herbert will not need to be reminded that the score of Naughty Marietta contains, in addition to "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life," such minor classics as "I'm Falling in Love with Someone," "The Italian Street Song," and "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp." Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald sing them to perfection and Naughty Marietta can be applauded, like One Night of Love (TIME, Sept...
...Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium to an audience trained to appreciate manner and appearance as well as vocal qualities, he made a prodigious impression. He got 18 encores, a screen test that led to bit parts in Dancing Lady and Student Tour before he was chosen for the lead in Naughty Marietta. More amazed than delighted by his sudden success, Baritone Eddy, now 33, plans to continue his concert stage career while performing in cinema. In Manhattan for a concert fortnight ago he gave his views on Hollywood and music: "Opera in the movies? ... It isn't entertaining enough. . . . The movies...