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...European loot to South America. Director Archie Mayo, evidently a man with a conscience, turns his three charges into fumbling sleuths, who, finally, get their man, if not their woman. Such concern over villains and their "just deserts' cuts the Marx Brothers out of much of the fun, giving Sig Rumann-labelled for future generations as the typical National Socialist-as many scenes as Groucho, Chico and Harpo together. And unlike Margaret Dumont, the gracious Mrs. Rittenhouse of earlier Marx Brothers triumphs, Rumann is not content to remain a foil, and Groucho must contend with him as both a Nazi...
Bloomer Girl (book by Sig Herzig and Fred Saidy from a play by Lilith & Dan James; music & lyrics by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg; produced by John C. Wilson in association with Nat Goldstone) was a roaring hit before it ever opened. Even after the superlatives have settled and the hats have dropped from the air, it remains a superior musical. A shiny period piece, it has approached its job with talent and invested a fortune with taste. Verbal comedy aside, it is an unusually well-rounded show-good music, likable lyrics, attractive dancing, engaging performers, stylish sets, gorgeous...
...late, great Virginia Woolf's last book is not one of her major works; it is almost a "light" novel. But it compares with the run of light novels as a Mozart opera compares with one by Sig Romberg. It is also the most nearly public of her exquisitely private books. Its subject is no individual, but the whole of England...
...from the Conrad novel and a faultless job of direction, help to make "Victory" one of the better pictures of the year. In addition, the leading roles are backed by a supporting cast whose collective performance ranks with the work of Betty Field and Fredric March. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Sig Rumann, and Jerome Cowan are given excellent opportunity to demonstrate the value of "type" characters in this sort of movie...
...Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Albert Basserman, Sig Rumann, Maria Ouspenskaya; TIME...