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Show Girl in Hollywood (First National). The adventures of Joseph Patrick McEvoy's laboriously vivacious heroine are continued in a sequel to Show Girl which is rather duller than its predecessor. Alice White's saucy face and impish dancing tide over long sequences of shoptalk garnished with heavy-handed wit. Best role: Blanche Sweet as a fading beauty of the screen who sings a song to the effect that "there is a tear for every smile in Hollywood...
...unanimously acquitted. Best shot: New Year's Eve in Vienna. Glorifying the American Girl (Paramount). A long time ago, when this picture was first planned. Florenz Ziegfeld was going to direct it himself. Then it was rumored that Erich von Stroheim had the job. Now J. P. McEvoy and Director Millard Webb have done the story and Irving Berlin, with three others, the music. It is a dull, shaky graph of a department store employe's rise to theatrical fame. Mary Eaton's pretty legs support a corner of the plot, which sags whenever legs...
Thus ran the story which J. P. McEvoy energized with Broadway chatter in his novel Show Girl (1928). And thus runs the plot of the musical show which Producer Ziegfeld, as Writer McEvoy had planned, has energized with girls, Gershwin tunes, and spillings from the largest cornucopia of talent in the girl-show business...
...confused with Show Girl, an unsuccessful adaptation of J. P. McEvoy's novel of that name...
Revues also have many peculiarities, some of them absurd. Among the latter are somewhat naked chorus girls, most burlesques of Strange Interlude, Frankie and Johnny contortionists, and the later works of Roger Wolfe Kahn. These J. P. McEvoy does not snub...