Evening star., 1933-06-09

elaborate staging Of its kind ever to be
attempted.
Good music, pretty girls, an occa-
Eional laugh and some good dancing
make this the kind of a show you have
been waiting for. Although the book ts
no great shakes, the routine Of "42nd
Street" being employed, and instead Of
the chorus girl getting her big chance
to be a star, the 18-years-in-serv1ce
Juvenile goes under with lumbago,
giving Song-Writer Powell (who Is Sc
cretly fancy Boston Backbayite) the
spotlight, there Is plenty OF amusement
to be had from it. And 1t viii. OF
course, be the most popular hlm In
town.
Starting of with one Of the best song
numbers, sung by that better looking
than-ever Ginger Rogers, the picture
swings into musical comedy routine
and then pauses to begin the telling Of
It's story. Before, however. you become
familiar with chief players, Dick
Powell, Guy Kibbe and Warren William,
you get an eyefu1 and an earful Of
Aline MacMahon, who, frankly, walks
away with the show.
You would never believe that Miss
MacMahon could make good gold
digger. But she does. She eajoles and
wheedles fiabbergasted Mr.. Kibbe, bam-
BOOBIES him into swift matrimony,
and emerges triumphant,y as the most
persuasive lady of her ilk. Her best
line comes when she says to him, "You
are as light as heifer."
Others of this gold itch tribe include
Joan Blondell, who is prettier than
Rogers, who wears fine clothes and dark
glasses.
Ruby Keeler, fastest rising player of
the year and more of Joy to the eye
than you can imagine, plays the gentle,
mouselike little heroine-a girl who at
sight of Backbay Powell realizes her
loves ambition. Knowing full well that
he is more than mere song writer
spotting perhaps his Goldfish ancestry
she Is loyal to him even when he Jumps
up and says: ''I1l let you have SIS, 900
to put on the show',-and when he Is
smeared all over the front page because
It has been discovered that he Is Bos-
tons best and almost disowned by his
brother (Mr. William) for snccumbing
to the theater, she puts up bold front
and snaps her fingers at the world,
marching away with him to the altar
when, as they say, she Is stfll hot.
The best moment in the film Is when
Mr.. Kibbe, looking In the mirror, dis
covers that his features are akin to \
small Pekingese which he Is holding.
Whoever thought up this little bit de-
serves immortality. It Is one Of the
funniest things we have ever seen.
All OF which gets you back to the fact
that this film has most everything that
warm weather entertainment requires.
1t Is handsome, swift and funny. Its
cast ls nrst class, and its music Is good
enough Tor you not to mind having
heard 1t hourly from some radio q
month or so ahead Of time.
The most astonishing news of the
theater today is the statement made
by Alexander Woollcott in his article
about Paul Robson, called "OP Man
River" in which he says that Alfred
Lunt and Lynn Fontanne plan some
day to play "Othello" with Mr.. Robe
son. In that case Mr.. Lunt would
play 1ago and Miss Fontanne Emilia.
Mr.. Jessel seems to have lost out.
When he was here he stated that he
had all kinds of hold on the screen
rights for "Wonderbar," in which he
and Miss Talmadge were to play around
together. Now comes word that "Won-
derbar" has been bought by the War
ner Bros. and that its screen YER
sion will include the SERVES of AL Jol-
son, Adolphe Menjou, Warren Williams,
sion will include the services of AL Jol-
son-Ruby Keeler to you.
y X
A polite but firm, note this morning
from Frank La Falce. Says he: "S100
to you-or the best suit in town-if
you can find theme song in I Cover
the Water Front" Sorry, Frank, for
the slp-up. We can suppose, then,
that that eternal "I Cover the Water
Front" song, which has been eating up
the air nightly via radio, is the theme
song for the new Marie Dressler film,
"Tug-boat Annie"
The Warner Bros are being mum
again about their coming attraction
for the Metropolitan bulletin
states that the theater will offer as its
featured screen attraction one of the
most stupendous pictures released by
any producing company this year"
the title will be announced Thursday.
-. VIII the film, by any conceivable
chance, have Aline MacMahon in It?
Philip Faversham, second son
OF one-time matinee idol, William
Faversham, will be Barbara Stanwyck' s
leading man in her new film, Female "