Monday, Mar. 21, 1938
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The Gaiety Girls (Alexander Korda) is a fresh-as-a-daisy English musical. It has sparkling lines, a logical story and a great show of versatility by England's gay, lantern-jawed Jack Hulbert, who is a good song-&-dance man, a better actor. Opposite him, blonde, healthy-looking Patricia Ellis has a better role than Hollywood ever gave her, does better than she ever did in Hollywood.
The Girl of the Golden West (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) plasters opulent prettiness, vociferous songs and an assortment of plot cliches all over David Belasco's ancient yarn about the mad, bad days in early California. Walter Pidgeon, sheriff of Cloudy Mountain, and Bandit Chief Nelson Eddy are rivals for Jeanette MacDonald, pastel-tinted proprietress of the Polka Saloon. Eddy's dimples, wavy hair and roly-poly pinkness satisfy the popular idea of a rakehell bad man about as well as they did that of a West Point football player in Rosalie. Miss MacDonald's concession to her role is a rolling walk and belligerent way of batting her eyelashes. Best song: Soldiers of Fortune.
Current & Choice
Merrily We Live (Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray; TIME, March 14).
Mad About Music (Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall; TIME. March 7).
Bringing Up Baby (Katharine Hepburn, Gary Grant; TIME, March 7).
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tommy Kelly, Ann Gillis, Jackie Moran, May Robson; TIME, Feb. 28).
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (TIME, Dec. 27).
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