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...FALL GUY?Ernest Truex as the turning worm in a middle-class comedy that is first-class entertainment...
...FALL GUY?More tough talk but this time in a Harlem flat. Ernest Truex is the unfortunate hero who became a bootlegger against his will...
...Ernest Truex plays, in that softly purring, neatly whimpering style of his, a little drug clerk out of a job, who succumbs in a moment of weakness to harboring a fearsome suitcase, crammed with bootleg liquor. Unknown to him, it also contains illicit narcotics and, when these are discovered, the little clerk naturally goes into the toils. Eventually he turns the tables, captures the head of the dope gang, is awarded by the authors a berth on the detective force out of gratitude for his ingenious acting...
...Truex's acting gives vitality to the play, but the authors, James Gleason and George Abbott, have also flecked it with amusing slang and bedecked it with gaudy, entertaining characters. Ralph Sipperly, as a wilful saxophone player, and Beatrice Noyes work themselves into the skin of their parts. The play is notable as the second success of the season on which Gleason has exercised his pen - establishing a record for the winter. He is co-author...
Miss Burke, still brilliantly youthful, seized all the honors of the happy event although the cast included, with the usual Ziegfeld prodigality, Ernest Truex, Marion Green, Bobby Watson and May Vokes. Her voice is a pretty toy to be played with rather than taken seriously. Possibly the relative unimportance of the music made it seem so. Not that it mattered. The play and the character are more than an evening's entertainment...