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...votre santè, papa," says tear-stained Poil de Carotte...
There are many opportunities for over-sentimentality but fortunately director Ralph Murphy has charted the course of his feamy schooner around these perils. The plot is somewhat standard: Papa Hoffman, Americanized German, whose name has for years been synonymous with the best of beer, sends his sons to France to fight the Fatherland. During their absence the Volsteadian debacle closes his lawful business and establishes the lucrative blind pig and speakeasy. Conflict between his remaining son, who now manufactures near beer, "the nearest we will ever got to beer," and Nails, his erst-while truck driver, and present racket king...
...acting is better than the ordinary run of these pictures with Jean Hershelt taking first prize as Papa Hoffman. Louise Dresser in the role of Mama Hoffman is the only actress to do a good job, but most of the supporting actors. George E. Stone and Richard Arlen especially, are adequate...
...good party. When sufficiently primed he has the urge to shoot off pistols. After a particularly brisk melee in the Hotel Regis, year ago. Father Calles is said to have banished Son Alfredo to a distant hacienda far from the sound of saxophones or popping of champagne. With papa away last week. Alfredo was on the town again, shot four holes in L'Escargot's ornate ceiling...
...Pope" ("He leads a jolly life, jolly life . . ."); "Church in the Wildwood" ("No spot is so dear to my childhood"); "The Lone Fishball" and fine old "Tourelay" with its chorus: Tourelay, tourelay, With my fillaga desha, skinamaroosha, balderalda boom tadeay, Tourelay, tourelay, And the pride of the household is papa's babie. Though few college gleemen now devote entire evenings to them, oldtimers' songs are by no means dead. Alumni like them no less than does amiable Professor Phelps. And alumni tastes count when a glee club goes off touring, has auditoriums to fill. Yet one glee club...