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...Living Dead Man is aFrench film based on Pirandello's The Late Mattia Pascal. The amazing absurdities of the philosophical deadhead who would live, love and be irresponsible, somehow hold the screen version together in an amusing roll-and-tumble that is neither slapstick nor brilliant comedy. That Pirandello's satirical quibbles of intangibility should have been considered for picturization is even more astounding than the film's partial success...
Peggy-Ann. Aided bv Gilbertian satire, Broadway slapstick, attractive dancers, the pepper of quick wisecracks, the charm of music, Peggy-Ann skipped right up to the head of the class in current musical diversions. Peggy-Ann (Helen Ford), a Cinderella in love with a penniless prince, falls asleep, dreams a crazy romance of department store and Cuban summer resort adventure. Helen Ford and Lester Cole sing the song hits, "In His Arms," "A Tree in the Park." Lulu McConnell, stylish stout comedienne, Charlestbns, croons, while pretty Betty Starbuck, as a clownish brat, keeps the audience a-roaring...
...twin brother are too frequently allowed to lag into slow comedy only partially relieved by the Bard's verse. Not so in this case. The cast mercifully interpret light comedy in a gay spirit unoppressed by the playwright's reputation. Sometimes the humor is even flavored with slapstick, as in the case of Egon Brecher's Sir Toby Belch, who does. Yet so airily do the players carry off the Shakespearean fancies that the audience readily forgives trivial irreverence avows Twelfth Night...
Lyric, West 42nd St.--The Ramblers is another combination bill; Clark and McCullough, Marie Saxon; Ruth Tester, and Jack Whiting. Clark and McCullough are superb slapstick artsts, using the tricks of Sgannerello and Harlequin on a modern stage in a modern way. Ruth Tester glows personality. Merie Saxon and Jack Whiting prove that beauty, dancing ability, and pleasing personalities can be combined...
...moral, in it. The old theatre was intended for pure entertainment; and without prejudice to profundity in the theatre, the present effort goes back to that ancient tradition. It is nearer to knockabout farce than it is to lesbian its source is the theatre in which the Slapstick was the great instrument of percussion and of humor...