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When Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew the Atlantic. 40 songs were promptly written about him in the U. S. Some were serious, some slapstick, all packed with platitudes. "Lucky Lindy" and "Lindbergh, the Eagle of the U. S. A." were most popular but they were soon forgotten. It was a German importation on the Lindbergh theme which Conductor Leopold Stokowski considered worthy of two Philadelphia orchestra performances in Philadelphia last week. Perhaps because it was composed expressly for radio performance,*Stokowski chose to give it in the last of four nationwide broadcasts sponsored by the Philadelphia (Philco) Storage Battery...
Reducing (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Critics who lament each slapstick comedy Marie Dressier makes as a deterioration of her art, wistfully recalling her work in Anna Christie and Let Us Be Gay, apparently forget that in the two latter plays Miss Dressier had bit-parts and that making a bit-part stand out is easy and not always justifiable. In Reducing, as in her other full-length roles, Miss Dressier works hard and with some skill, but the results are not memorable. She comes from the country as the permanent guest of her sister. Polly Moran, who has grown rich running...
Movement of emotions, play of ideas, and a succession of delicately worked out situations, held the interest of an audience which must have been far more familiar with the more common and more obvious elements of rough, slapstick comedy, blood-and-thunder melodrama, and mawkishly sentimental love tales. "A Month in the Country" is an evening of quiet. One cannot laugh often, but one is forced to smile frequently. One does not sit on the edge of his chair, but, on the other hand, neither does one drowse...
...given her for her work in bit-parts (TIME, July 28), has now kept on making bit-parts out of roles in which she was supposed to star. How well Min and Bill will register in its present form remains questionable, although it is fortified by long sequences of slapstick such as a six-minute fight in which Min hits Bill with a variety of objects, including porcelain bedroom utensils. Best acting: Dorothy Jordan as the girl whom Miss Dressier has taken care of since her mother, a prostitute in the next town, left her in the boarding house...
...Life of the Party (Warner). People who feel humiliated when they find themselves laughing at comedy which bases its appeal on noise, cheap wisecracks, furniture smashing, the loss of trousers and similar devices will not enjoy The Life of the Party. It is a slapstick feature with Winnie Lightner and Irene Delroy as a pair of golddiggers who are discharged from a music store, raid a dressmaking establishment, and go to Havana looking for kind old men. It is stupid stuff, yet funny. Best line: a horse-racing Colonel (Charles Butterworth), seeing his entry turn around and run the wrong...