Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time-honored theme of the two people who bear an uncanny resemblance to each other and the comedy of errors resulting from the confusion is resurrected for Maurice Chevalier in "Folies Bergere." The amiable Frenchman plays the parts of Eugene Charlier of the "Folies" and baron Cassini, a dashing financier "as well known on the Boulevard as on the Bourse." Since the actor is so good at impersonating the Baron in his act, he eventually comes around to impersonating the distinguished banker when that gentleman is unavoidably absent at a reception he was supposed to be giving various dignitaries...
...took aboard his yacht. Fearing he loves her honestly, he sails away alone without telling her why. When he returns, the girl has agreed to marry his brother. Clearing the matter up takes much dialog and some music. Best shot: the final one, in which the heroine hears the theme song, "Love Passes By," played by a hurdy-gurdy, tooted on an automobile horn, sung by a beautician, a gardener and Carminati...
...TIME IS RIPE-Walter Greenwood -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). The social climb of a small English shopkeeper, set against the Hogarthian background of unemployed slumdwellers; a dreary theme handled in masterly fashion...
...theme, to be sure, around which "Sarah Simple" fluctuates, one which perhaps is best generally exemplified in Barrie's "What Every Woman Knows." With no pathos and more humor than Barrie's masterpiece, it should bowl along tonight without the impediments plentifully supplied by any dress rehearsal...
...story is a pleasing variation on an old theme. Gary Cooper is a novelist whose literary efforts have suffered through his intimacy with the more alcoholic New York set. Having poured out their substance in Scotch and sodas, he and wife, Helen Vinson, set out for the homestead in New England...