Evening star., 1935-08-31
Comedy Hits
High Mark in
Earle Show
Without Plot, "We're
in the Money" Is
Actors Play.

he CIue 10 tne lHpOI toAlSc dhS
= intelligence of Were in the
Money" which opened yesterday at
the Earle, is given in one OF the
first lines of dialogue. Ross Alex
ander and Joan Blondell are seen in
enthusiastic embrace. They come
out, regard each other hungrily. &c
into the clinch again. come up fol-
air and Ross says to Joan: why
won't you tell me your name?"
From there they're off, and any
thing goes. The boys who made this
one seem to have read their Freud
religiously and decided to have nc
inhibitions about anything, including
film making.
OF course, the story they had hand
ed to them may have had some effect
on Miss Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Mr.
Alexander, Hugh Herbert, Director
Ray Enright, ct al. They probably
took one look at the script and de-
cided there was no use making a
movie, they might as well play slap
stick games.
Now the spirit of camaraderie and
unrestrained gayety with which these
people enter into their tasks of mild
burlesquerie is q lot of good fund, pro-
viding you are not bent upon the find
ing of a. story in the precincts OF
the Earle.
What passes for a plot In Were
in the Money is this: Glenda Farrell
and Joan Blonden are a pair OF
process servers. Joan is in love with
a chap masquerading as chauffeur
so he may escape being served in
breach of promise suit. Now, here's
the surprise. The Misses Farrell and
Blonden are handed the task of serv-
ing subpoenas in that very same court
action.
Would you believe it? Anyhow, there
are lot of complications, which cause
Miss Blondell and Mr.. Alexander to
be like this and like that by turns
until they finally get back to the clinch
they started from.
Not much there, but you certainly
will laugh at the antics of Hugh
Herbert, as the attorney who hires
the girls to serve his papers, who fol-
lows the widest auto ride imaginable
with even wilder maneuvers of an
outboard motor boat, and who gets
his greatest enjoyment of life through
hddling with puzzles. You also will
laugh at the manner in which the
two girls serve their subpoenas.
Vera Van, the 80 Roxyettes, Johnny
Perkins, Park and Clifford, and the
Hartmans are in the Earle stage show
which should indicate that the Earle
stage show is very fine portion oi
vaudeville, indeed. Which it is.
Mr.. Perkins is a rotund, genial and
ingratiating master of ceremonies
known as "a ton of fun" though he
probably falls few pounds short ot
1000. He tells few gags, some gooc
and some not so good, as are all gag,
told by masters of ceremonies, in
troouces the various other performers
enters into the acrobatics of Park an6
Clifford, where he turns out to be 9
riot, and brings on a couple of his
own proteges.
One of these is a chap named Buddy
Monroe, who stopped yesterdays frs!
show colder than yesterday mc-ning'.
drizzle, and the other is Miss Mitz
Kay, who has a very nice voice.
Miss Van also did some show stop.
ping yesterday, with her blue-velvei
voice and the way she has about her
She opens with Living in q Greai
Big Way" just to warm, up the voice
goes into Cant Help Loving Tha,
Man." and makes it sound bettel
than you've heard it sound IN a lons
time, then takes UP the subject ol
Solitude" and until you've heard
Miss Vera Van sing Solitude" yor
have not lived a complete life.
The Roxyettes do some new routines
one of which, called "Estrellita." Il
about tops for such performances; thu
Hartmans superbly satirize dance
teams, and Park and Clifford per-
form some Of the best muscular feat
In vaudeville.
The Earle bill also includes shor'
In Technicolor called Romance of ths
West" which has IN unimportani
story and some downright excellen!
scenic views. II. N,