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...King of Burlesque" catches Warner Baxter between a crusty society dame (Mona Barrie) and poor, but nonetheless faithful, love (Alice Faye). True love wins out in the end, of course, for while Park Avenue wilts him and jilts him, love makes a fortune dancing in London and stakes him to his theatrical comeback. Though the plot creaks mildly in spots, the cracks of Jack Oakie, the dancing of Alice Faye, and several good songs ("I've Got My Fingers Crossed," "I'm Shooting High") manage to hold it together for the final embrace. But we would not care to dine...
Tomorrow night in Paine Hall, the Radcliffe and Harvard Music Clubs are presenting a free concert of interesting old works which are rarely heard. Also to be heard and seen in the near future is the Indian dancer, Mona Rani, and her Hindu musicians, who are coming to Jordan Hall next Tuesday evening...
King of Burlesque (Twentieth-Cen-tury-Fox). When Warner Baxter, a promoter of strip acts who aspires to more artistic realms, buys himself a society wife (Mona Barrie), it is a foregone conclusion that he will not profit by the bargain. What is not a foregone conclusion about King of Burlesque is the sudden meteoric pace it strikes when Mr. Baxter starts his comeback. The situation at this point is Baxter down & out, with Alice Faye, lead in his old burlesque show, seeking a way to help him without making herself known. She and Jack Oakie hire a sandwichman...
Gift of $500,000 soon enabled Professor Yerkes to house a second colony of chimpanzees on a 200-acre farm at Orange Park Fla. There Mona, 21, gave birth to the only known pair of anthropoid twins a male and a female (TIME, June ii 1934). There Gua, 7½-months, proved herself smarter in many respects than Donald Kellogg, 10 months (TIME. June 19 1933 et ante). There chimpanzees have proved that, although they cannot talk they can think and make rational decisions, that their intelligence and behavior are akin to human intelligence and behavior...
...aviators who help Bolivia win a fictitious war-in-the-air over the Gran Chaco. It inevitably portrays a cocky, ready-fisted individual (Jack Holt) whose general unpleasantness includes the fact that he can fly better than his comrades. When Holt falls in love with an unknown, charming lady (Mona Barrie) at a fiesta, she turns out to be the wife of his commanding officer (Antonio Moreno). Holt saves Moreno from perishing in the jungle after a crash, steals an enemy plane, bombs an ammunition dump, captures the Paraguayan ace, El Zorro, "the fox who flies like an eagle...