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...Victoria as exciting as detective fiction. HALLELUJAH-blackamoor joys and sorrows. BULLDOG DRUMMOND-phantasms in a not-so-merry-England. WHY BRING THAT UP?(Moran & Mack) -the "Two Black Crows" of record and radio fame, repeat their inane, hilarious dialog for the cinema. HOLLYWOOD REVUE-elaborate photography of the Ziegfeld idea...
...boring, the producers have put in some good new songs, the best being "Sweetheart, We Need Each Other." RKO's policy of revivifying somewhat shopworn stars by publicizing them as new discoveries has worked out well with Bebe Daniels. She may not have as good a voice as Ziegfeld's stage Rita (Ethylind Terry) but she sings well enough and gets her lines over. Best shots : Miss Daniels in her metal dress; a Mexican padrone respect fully kissing a moneyed young man be cause he takes him to be a safecracker...
Ruth Etting, star of Ziegfeld's "Whoopee", when interviewed yesterday at the Metropolitan Theatre in Boston, where she is making personal appearances, thus made clear her position toward Harvard undergraduates...
...which consisted mostly of imitations of Harry Lauder. After warming up on Orpheum and Proctor circuits she played in the cast of The Girl from Utah in England, then in another play or two, then back to vaudeville, then in the Follies of 1915 and 1916. Ziegfeld, who liked her imitations, let her do one of Marie Odile, star of a Belasco play then current. David Belasco saw her and gave her the leading role next season in Polly with a Past...
...ranch he quickly told his daughter the rest of Mr. Ziegfeld's story?Ruby Keeler, pert star of Show Girl, third wife of Al ("Mammy") Jolson, had been mysteriously stricken during a performance. With a twinge of sympathy for Ruby, a burst of joy for her own good fortune, Dorothy Stone ran to pack...