Word: staled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deck (RKO). As a stage musical comedy, this was well liked three years ago. As a photograph of a stage musical comedy, it is handicapped by the fact that its great tunes-"Hallelujah" and "Sometimes I'm Happy"-are just old enough to be stale. Its story, stale to begin with, is laid in a seaport town populated by chorus girls who are always ready to swing into a routine, and by numerous chorus-boy sailors named Smith. Jack Oakie's talents are subdued by his struggles with the dialog. A girl named Polly Walker, new to films...