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This fresh insight into his own character shakes him. At the dedication of Vardon Hall he delivers a fumbling speech: "So much that has been written would have been better left unprinted." A coterie of his friends then stage a romp that confirms the worst suspicions of the natives. Ma Curry prepares to expose Sands, but before she can make a move, Sands threatens her with counter-exposures, and then dies of a heart attack...
Around Irma and Sam-and an assortment of turn-of-the-century islanders-Novelist William March fashions a choice tropical romp in the serio-comic vein of Satirists Aubrey Menen and Edgar Mittel-holzer...
County Humane Society near Fort Ord, Calif., where Humeston was stationed. During the making of the movie, Private Humeston was given leave to accompany Pagan to Hollywood. As scripted by Charles Lederer, directed by Stanley Donen and pleasantly performed, Fearless Pagan is a merry little romp, with the lion's share of the acting honors going to Fagan...
Where's Charley? (Warner) adds tunes, Technicolor and limber-legged Ray Bolger to that durable old 1892 romp, Charley's Aunt, to make a merry cinemusical. As Oxford Undergraduate Charley,* Bolger sings & dances in his ingratiatingly gawky style. And to get himself and his pal out of a romantic dilemma, he also impersonates Dona Lucia d'Alvadorez, his rich aunt from Brazil, "where all the nuts come from." Decked out in a long black dress and a red wig, "with a face like a hatchet, a voice like a duck and a figure to match," Bolger makes...
...Schafer, and gallantly insists on driving her to & from a palatial home, when actually she lives just across the street from his plumbing shop. Naturally, this mistake leads to complications. After several reels of hot & cold running gags, the complications are cleared up, but by then this little plumbing romp has sprung a good many scenario leaks...