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THE CRITICS WALTZED
to their typewriters and sang:
**** (Four Stars). A new "MERRY WIDOW" emerges at the Astor. Ernst Lubitsch has devised something delightfully fresh and thoroughly entertaining. — Kate Cameron, Daily New*
Debonair and witty photoplay that reveals the master of cinema high comedy in his brightest mood. The incomparable Lubitsch proves once more his vast skill at genuine cinema wit. A thousand of those superb "Lubitsch touches". You will probably be picking your favorite ones for yourself.
— Richard Watts, Jr., Herald'Tribune
"MERRY WIDOW" opened at super-gala premiere with huge crowds jamming sidewalks. Lubitsch comedy deftly put over.
— Rose Pehwick, Eve, Journal
Witty and incandescent in the excellent Lubitsch manner, heady as the foam on champagne, fragile as mist and delicately gay. Ensemble numbers are breath-taking. Mr. Chevalier has never been better in voice nor charm. Miss MacDonald — a captivating personality and a lyric voice. The Winter season has been royally crowned.
— Andre Senntva/d, Times
Audience applauded each song, each actor. All the lovely Franz Lehar score is there, sung delightfully. Romantic music, lilting gracious waltzes that live on in memory .There are enough laughs to keep an audience giggling most of the ,ime —Eileen Creelman, Sun
Gaily abandoned ! A grand show. It makes the
original seem stodgy. A "MERRY WIDOW"
which we are sure is the merriest of them all.
— Martin Dickstein, B'klyn Eagle
The exquisite, haunting melodies stir to thrilling, sparkling life. Lubitsch triumph glows in all its glory. A delight alike for eye and ear and heart and soul. Lubitsch's sly, chuckling humor is pointed with impish precision. Film leaves audience bemused by its beauty, thrilling to its songs. Truly Metro's masterpiece.
— Regina Creu<e, N.Y. American
Nothing but the touch of Lubitsch could transmute the love pulsations of Count Danilo and the beauteous Sonia into the wickedly irreverent spasms which pour forth. Continuously stimulating. An utterly enchanting picture.
— Thornton Delehanty, Post
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