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Earnest students of new directions in comedy films have long since come to expect only pre-tested, well-worn situations in Bob Hope pictures. Yet "Monsieur Beaucaire," though moving through the old familiar paces with the thoroughly-shredded plot of the Tarkington satire as a vague backdrop, manages, like most of its siblings, to be pretty funny. This is due, as usual, to Hope's exertions--here as a craven barber trying to fill a French Duke's shoes as swordsman, lover, and bridegroom...
Many a campus monthly pointed with pride to famed alumni (but few of the famed alumni point with pride to their campus work). Princeton's Tiger boasts of names like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Booth Tarkington, Whitney Darrow Jr. The Yale Record printed Lucius Beebe, Stephen Vincent Benet and Peter Arno. Milton Caniff was art editor of the Ohio State Sundial. John P. Marquand, Gluyas Williams and the late Robert Benchley began on the Harvard Lampoon...
...Virginian, Alice Hegan Rice's Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch; 1905-Mrs. Humphry Ward's The Marriage of William Ashe, 1908-Rex Beach's The Barrier; 1912-Gene Stratton Porter's The Harvester; 1914-Eleanor H. Porter's Polly anna. 1916-Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. Harold Bell Wright's When a Man's a Man; 1917-H. G. Wells's Mr. Britling Sees It Through; 1919-V. Blasco Ibáñez's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams; 1921-Sinclair...
Monsieur Beaucaire--Bob Hope roaming through Tarkington with Joan Caulfield, at the Met Thursday...
Monsieur Beaucoire (Paramount), the late Booth Tarkington's graceful romance about a Louis XV nobleman who disguised himself as a barber, was once (1924) a vehicle for Rudolph Valentino. Times (not to mention plots) change: today it is a scooter for Bob Hope. Mr. Hope, fortunately, plays the masquerading role...