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...Welsh folk-music. Most of the performing Cymry were born in Wales, now live in the U. S. The solemn, intense, long-skulled choristers of Cleveland's Cambrian Male Choir sang ancient Celtic hymns. New York's Welsh Women's Chorus, in scarlet capes and topper-like hats, proved that a language that looks shy on vowels need not sound unmusical...
...Topper" with Cary Grant, Constance Bennett and Roland Young tells the story of two amusing reprobates who acquire the rather disconcerting habit of shuffling off this mortal coil at will. Mr. Grant and Miss Bennett resolve to do one good deed before they knock at the pearly gates, deciding to transform Mr. Young, America's foremost Babbit into America's number one play-boy. Combining the photographic tricks of "The Invisible Man" with a new freshness entirely its own, the film rates as tops in humor; the only adverse criticism is that perhaps "Topper" is a little too much...
What the devil do gum manufacturers do? Mr. Bowman [TIME, Sept. 13] drinks beer in a topper and a bare chest. Is this the custom? What does...
...pictures, in which succeeding generations of fat, freckled, good, bad, pretty and colored children were featured. Mr. Roach made a fortune out of these films but this spring he put his name on a different kind of comedy, a full-length sophisticated picture. It was a good one called Topper, starring Constance Bennett, Cary Grant and Roland Young, and Hollywood sat up and admitted that Hal Roach had widened his horizons in a hurry. Laying his head to Dr. Senise's, he proceeded to widen it still further in a fashion to take even a Schenck's breath...
They Won't Forget (Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris); Topper (Roland Young, Gary Grant, Constance Bennett); Saratoga (Jean Harlow, Clark Gable); The Life of Emile Zola (Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut); The Spanish Earth (directed by Joris Ivens with commentary by Ernest Hemingway) ; Souls at Sea (Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Olympe Bradna...