Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last days of King Edward VIII's reign, a London stage revue was considered daring and excruciatingly funny because one of the characters was frequently addressed as "Miss Simpson." Music hall and radio comedians throughout the United Kingdom fairly itched to utter the words "Mrs. Simpson" in any connection whatsoever, and these British funsters were still itching without relief when, last week. Miss Joan Young, author of a British Broadcasting Corp. radio revue called Masculine Fame on Parade, took her place to conduct this performance. The B. B. C. Variety Orchestra struck up. Itching intolerably, Comedian John Rorke stood...
...slice of U. S. industrial history. Less effective is the overlong recital of the process by which John Meade comes to jilt his society sweetheart (Gail Patrick) by marriage with the humblest woman he can find (Francine Larrimore). At times patently uneasy with the camera's quiet tempo, Miss Larrimore on the whole does well in her first screening, especially when she gets a chance to turn on high-tension dramatics. Her best scene: telling John Meade why she has decided to visit a cabaret with her chauffeur (John Trent...
...backdrop, a big spidery web which the Prince had to rip aside to reach the Princess. The dancers were more energetic than exact. Russian Alexis Dolinoff, as Prince Désiré, was a worse dancer than U. S.-born Thomas Cannon (Prince-from-the-North). As the heroine, Miss Littlefield danced cleanly and classically...
...Powell does a creditable job in his usual boyish style, and Miss Carrol, as stated, does just about the best that can be expected. Actually, the show is just about stolen by Alice Faye. Her appearance is improving, her voice is richening, she has definitely learned to act, and her second fiddling to Miss Carrol is very much to be heard. Her delineation of the Bowery belle is particularly gratifying. The Ritz brothers also put in their appearance now and then. Stating the general appearance of the audience rather than the particular one of the reviewer, they are pretty funny...
...plot in brief makes some spicy jibes at the ultra-rich, shows Dick ridiculing Madelcine and Madeleine ridiculing Dick with an idyllic all night frolic thrown in between, marries the two through the martyrdom of Miss Faye, and winds up with a wedding breakfast in a wheel-less dining car. The thing is rollicking enough, but falls a little short of what the material would seem to permit...