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...Family Upstairs. The some-what rough and tumble domesticity of another $40-a-week family is herein chronicled. It is the same type of family that dwelt in the household of The Show-Off, possibly a notch or two more distinguished than the clattering denizens of The Fall Guy. These humans react in primitives. The chief feeling of a visitor within their precincts is laughter at their meddling monotonies tempered with sorrow for their errors...
They Knew What They Wanted-Under the Elms, where, in the four rooms of the famous sectional house, 1) The Show-Off makes love to Aloma (of the South Seas) ; 2) Helen Hayes-Cleopatra encourages the advances of George Arliss-Old English; 3) Robert Armstrong-Pugilist grows passionate with Lenore Ulric-Carla; and 4) Pauline Lord-Amy falls for Holbrook Blinn-Don José, until Joseph Schildkraut-Cellini enters and kisses each lady into a swoon...
...Backslapper pours salt in the wound opened by The Show-Off. The latter comedy tells of a man who has a tongue of honey and a heart of gold; the backslapper's talk runs freely enough, but underneath there is the shark heart of the hypocrite...
...SHOW-OFF−A penetrating and diverting portrait of the irrepressible individual who talks his head...
...SHOW-OFF- Still one of the most infectiously amusing, with the human jackass leading the middle-class herd...