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...Girl (Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou. Leopold Stokowski...
...musician is Adolph Menjou, and he, with a hundred similar muscians, is out of work. Miss Durbin succeeds after a good doal of harrowing misunderstanding and consequent rushing around New York not only to form her own orchestra but also obtain a backer and none other than Mr. Leopold Stokowski as her conductor; Mr. Stokowski is not an actor but he makes a most engaging character on the screen...
...lack of the arch, smarty, claphands affectations which have blighted so many Hollywood juveniles in the bud. Positively, she has a clear, appealing soprano, a plump and pleasant face, a buxom 14-year-old physique. In 100 Men & a Girl, as the daughter of an impoverished trombonist (Adolphe Menjou) who is trying vainly to get a job in Stokowski's orchestra, Miss Durbin finds her way without pathetic bumbles through some pretty sentimental sequences. She collects an orchestra of 100 out-of-work musicians, friends of her father's, finally prevails on Stokowski himself (in person) to conduct...
...Power plays the part of a Princeton student (nor is his portrayal a la Robert Taylor) who gets into difficulties over a gambling debt owed to Adolph Menjou, proprietor of the Cafe Metropole. Mr. Power, to square things, poses as a Russian prince and is introduced by Mr. Menjou to Miss Young, wealthy heiress, on the understanding that he will be exposed, Mr. Menjou receiving a present from Miss Young's lather in return for having bared the prince's true identity. Of course love finds its way from there, and things work out very pleasantly before the final scones...
...Ratoff, who wrote the story from which Author Jacques Deval (Tovarich) adapted the screen play, acts his fat part with the enthusiasm it deserves, sets the pace for the rest of a cast of which each member is performing a specialty in which he is tops. Good shot: Adolphe Menjou, Hollywood's ablest exponent of the art of playing maitre d' hotel since The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926), introducing a dish of wild strawberries, brought from Algeria by special plane...