Picture Play Magazine (1938)

Norbert Lusk's Reviews Continued from page 59 Oman who fears his influence over •r sister, Florence Rice. John Beal is le hitter's dim-witted fiance. All are lixed up in slapstick, with Miss Loy >sing her poise and becoming as one ith Mr. Powell in antic eccentricity. s with all pictures of this kind, it is hat the characters say and do that ;eps the screwball rolling, and not le telling of a story. "The Perfect Specimen." — Warners. rrol Flynn goes in for lightest of ght comedy and scores what I think his biggest hit since "Captain lood." And that doesn't mean he is surpassing artist, either. But it does lean that an amusing picture successill) shows off his pleasant personlity and manly good looks, without ving to make too much of either. He . supposed to be a son of fabulous ealth and looks and acts it more conincingly than life and the screen sually permit. Mr. Flynn is better lan the real thing. Shielded, trained, lucated as a perfect specimen of manood by his doting grandmother, he irk but one thing — experience with fe. It comes when a car crashes irough his fence — and Joan Blondell eps out, a reporter bent on getting ie low-down. The two are swept into izzy adventure, Mr. Flynn getting exerience with life quickly and Miss londell getting her male. "The Bride Wore Red.'*— MGM. ven Joan Crawford can't lift a poor :ript. This is not news, of course, but ad reflection. Just why the story of er current picture won't do is hard to ry. Or it is difficult to explain in a jw words. It's unbelievable, for one ling, but it isn't sufficiently incredible ) rate as a fantasy. Perhaps because is too obviously a Cinderella story ithout an instant of truth and several loments that strain common sense. As, jr example, when Paul Porcasi, the otel keeper, orders Miss Crawford to ;ave his Tyrolean inn because of her onnection with a dive in Trieste, he s the best-dressed woman on his sgister and the contents of her trunks ould more than pay her bill. But he enounces her as if she were a leper, ie are asked to believe that Miss Irawford settles down to a Tyrolean easanl wardrobe for life. She can do etter than this. She must, for the sake f the faithful. She will. "Ali Baba Goes to Town."— 20th entiuy-Fox. There is only one Eddie antor. Either you love him or you Jathe him. At least he is like no other omedian. Give him credit for holding is own for years and years while niii tators have fallen l>\ the wayside am been forgotten. His youthfulness am freshness ate amazing, hi .-how manship expert, inspired, his clowning earthy, close to humanity. I consider him a fine artist, if for no other reason than he has never lost hi head, never gone arty. Eddie is the people's choice, a man of the people, too. I never overlook another virtue of his. thai of appearing seldom. One picture a year is bis invariable quota. Would that the same could lie said of ever) other -l.u ! 1 hen their professional live would be longer. But that is impossible when material returns are the first consideration and public loyalty is akin to human fickleness. Hi new picture is good, bul not hilariousl) out of the ordinary, amusing but not festive. He is an ingenuous tramp who is catapulted onto an Oriental movie set, has a dream that lakes him into the real Orient. It ends with his adventure on a flying carpel — the children will love this as I did — and he finishes as a tramp outside a Hollywood theater where the premiere is held. The tram]) looks on, bewildered, while Eddie Cantor takes the bows. "Its Love Fm After." — Y\ arners. Leslie Howard. 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