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Three Waltzes (adapted by Clare Kummer & Rowland Leigh from a play by Paul Knepler and Armin Robinson; produced by Messrs. Shubert). Between old-fashioned operetta and newfangled musi-comedy is more than a gulf of years. Nevertheless light opera still goes on, for even in Manhattan many a theatregoer would still rather swoon to a waltz than tap his restless feet to the beat of a topical song. For such oldsters-by-preference, the Shuberts' second Christmas present, Three Waltzes, was as good as a plum pudding ablaze with Napoleon brandy...
...Love Again (Gaumont British). As a vehicle for the dancing and singing of big-eyed Jessie Matthews, this musi-comedy sometimes staggers along in low gear, sometimes spins at a sparkling clip. Mass Matthews is visible and audible almost all the time in a number of elaborate sets and a variety of costumes, some of which reveal nearly all of her personable person. As Gaumont British has found...
Moonlight and Pretzels (Universal). The extraordinary thing about this musi-comedy is not that it resembles Forty-Second Street and Gold Diggers of 1933 in plot, pattern and environment; that it has the same type of dances, staged by Bobby Connolly, and the same type of songs ("Dusty Shoes'" for a finale instead of ''Forgotten Men"); or that its ingenue, Mary Brian, not only looks like Ruby Keeler but has obviously been coached to. speak in the same soft monotone. The surprising aspect of Moonlight and Pretzels is that it makes plausible Hollywood's profound conviction...
Like its predecessors, this one starts off with George Dwight (Roger Pryor) frantically trying to put together a musi-comedy which displays a constant tendency to fall apart. Rival producers (the "Hobarts") try to buy the controlling interest. The leading lady (Lilian Miles) persuades a gambler friend (Leo Carillo) to foil the Hobarts by buying a piece of the show himself. He promptly loses it in a crap game and Sport Powell (Herbert Rawlinson), who wins it, unnerves Dwight by trying to make a pretty chorus girl (Mary Brian) the leading lady. A tiny vein of originality can be detected...
...latest flirtation was beginning to grow serious, his grown-up daughter turned up to plague him. At first he thought Lindsay a credit to him: she was not beautiful but she had charm, wit, sophistication, and she was on the verge of a big success in the musi-comedy world. They took to each other on sight, but Carl rapidly discovered his daughter was a little too clever for his comfort. It was bad enough when she trapped him into giving her unattractive young half-sister a horribly boring day-long birthday treat; but when she collected...