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Tira's manners in this scene are congruous with her past. A honky-tonk dancer whose behavior at all times suggests that she is on her way to bed, she has improved her station in life by performing in a wild animal act and putting her head in a lion's mouth. As an important circus celebrity she continues to make advances to most of the men she meets. When young Kirk (Kent Taylor) kisses the inside of her hand, she rolls her eyes and growls: "You got me!" After ejecting Kirk's fiancee, Tira receives another...
...disreputable cabaret, and the cabaret presupposes a girl who wants to keep straight or go straight. All these elements are supplied by the studio. Miss Twelvetrees is a stranded entertainer who is discharged when the depression penetrates to the tropics. There is a priceless old harridan of a honky-tonk proprietress, blowsy and affable, disreputable and roguish, who considerately allows Miss Twelvetrees to pick up a little silver from the sailors in a fitful, fretful, and amateurish way. But when she tries to steal passage money for the States from Mr. Charles Bickford, she over-estimates his drunkenness...
...overtaking the movies nowadays is that if you miss a picture at one theater it is almost certain to turn up sooner or later at another. At the Central Square this week are two such attractions. "The Virginian," which has been reviewed before in the Playgoer columns, and "Honky Tonk...
...Honky Tonk" stars Sophie Tucker, and unless you like her particular and unless you like her particular genre of sentimental songs there is little of importance or entertainment in the picture. But it is innocuous at worst and not enough to keep one away from seeing its companion...
Miss Tucker, who is an ardent admire of England, is planning to return there shortly to take a principal part in a play by Jack Hurlburt and Paul Murray. Recently she has been making personal appearances at the showings of her talking picture, "Honky-Tonk...