Word: waitering
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...pursues a young lady (Ginger Rogers) who is seeking divorce from an absurd geologist. There appear the impediments customary in musicomedy romance. Astaire is mistaken for a professional corespondent whom the young lady's guardians (Alice Brady and Edward Everett Horton) have ordered from an agency. A fatuous waiter makes ridiculous monologs. At odd moments a comely chorus dances, sings and wears elaborate costumes. Xone of this inter feres with the elegant genuflections or swift bright patter of Fred Astaire who, next to Bill Robinson the most nimble-footed hoofer on the U. S. stage, is rapidly developing into...
...climax comes when, through a misunderstanding, Mr. Astaire shows up in Miss Rogers' apartment early in the morning as her co-respondent, shortly followed by a professional home-wrecker, a musical and toothy young Italian. Through the combined efforts of the professional and the amateur and a helpful waiter Miss Rogers finally succeeds in freeing herself from her husband and dancing off to happiness with Mr. Astaire...
...addition to Miss Brady the Theatre Guild provides two other excellent members of the supporting cast in Eric Blore and Warren Munsell, who assist capably in some of the most humorous moments. Mr. Blore was particularly effective as the amiable English waiter...
Retorted Mrs. Holmsen: "It just so happens that I come from one of New York's very best families and my friends and relatives number among the most popular here and abroad. . . . If [the waiter] doesn't like bare feet and shorts, ladies who pick up gentlemen and who order milk hot but not boiled and freshly squeezed orange juice, he has but to say so in ordinary polite language...
...curbstone she explained: "I don't wear shoes because they are outrageous and barbaric. I wear shorts because I'm free and on my own now. . . . That waiter was just a prude...