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COAST TRADES AND DAILIES CHEERED AND LAUGHED LOUDLY FOR "SWING YOUR LADY" FOLLOWING ITS PREVIEW AT WARNERS' HOLLYWOOD THEATRE. IT IS A GREAT LAUGH HIT. FOLLOWING ARE THE QUOTES:
VARIETY: "HUMOROUS CARRICATURE OF THE GENUS HILLBILLY WHICH WILL STAND UP AS ONE OF THE SEASON'S MOST REFRESHING AND GENUINELY NOVEL COMEDIES WITH MUSIC....PURE LAUGH ENTERTAINMENT....MUSIC HAS CHARM AND FRESHNESS, BELONGS TO THE NATURE OF THE PICTURE AND CARRIES INTRINSIC PART OF THE ENTERTAINMENT AS MUSIC SELDOM DOES IN THE GENERAL RUN OF MUSICAL COMEDIES, WRITING JOB IS BRIGHT AND PITHY, FILLED WITH NATURAL COMEDY IN LINE AND SITUATION, IS EARTHY IN ITS FRANK BUT INOFFENSIVE ROMANTIC MATTERS....RAY ENRIGHT'S DIRECTION HITS ON ALL THE COMEDY CYLINDERS, EXPLOITING AND COMPLEMENTING THE MATERIAL WITH SURENESS, DEFTNESS AND WALLOP....PICTURE'S OUTSTANDING MERIT OF BREEZY ORIGINALITY.... PLAYERS ARE INCITED TO THEIR TOP EFFORTS....INTERESTING VENTURE OFF THE BEATEN PATH OF MUSICAL COMEDY."
REPORTER: "*SWING YOUR LADY' RIOTOUS. HILLBILLY WEAVERS, COMEDY CAST SCORE....GRAND FUN FOR HIGHBROW OR LOW....NOT SINCE 'THREE MEN ON A HORSE' HAVE WARNERS DELIVERED AS MANY BROAD LAUGHS IN ONE MODEST PACKAGE. IT IS DUE FOR EXCEPTIONAL POPULARITY ON ALL PROGRAM LEVELS AND STANDS A GOOD CHANCE OF CLEANING UP....THERE IS BREEZY NOVELTY IN THE STORY....-INDIVIDUAL COMEDY PERFORMANCES ARE SWELL....SPIRITED DIRECTION BY RAY ENRIGHT IS WHAT CHIEFLY MAKES THIS SO SHINING AND HONESTLY LAUGHABLE SATIRE....COMEDY OFFERING OF MARKED WORTH....DANCE AND COMEDY INTERRUPTIONS ARE SO GOOD THAT THEY'RE WELCOME...."
EXAMINER: "WHEN 1938 IS OVER, A LIST OF THE YEAR'S FUNNIEST PICTURES WILL INCLUDE 'SWING YOUR LADY' SOMEWHERE NEAR THE TOP....PRODUCTION KEPT ITS WARNER BROS. HOLLYWOOD PREVIEW AUDIENCE LAST NIGHT IN AN UPROAR OF HONEST LAUGHS....PLOT AND BACKGROUNDS ARE REFRESHINGLY NEW....PENDLETON'S CHARACTERIZATION OF THE DUMB GRAPPLER IS ONE OF THE FINEST JOBS HE HAS DONE ON THE SCREEN....MUSICAL INTERLUDES WITH AN OZARK HILLBILLY ORCHESTRA ADD TO THE FILM'S ENJOYMENT...."
TIMES: "A HILLBILLY TOUR-DE FORCE, CLIMAXED BY A HILARIOUS WRESTLING MATCH....FIRST NOVELTY FEATURE OF 1938....A PICTURE STRICTLY FOR LAUGHS....+WEAVER BROTHERS AND ELVIRY, A NOTED HILLBILLY ACT, FURNISH PLENTY OF MOUNTAIN ATMOSPHERE....PENNY SINGLETON....SINGS AND DANCES IN ENGAGING FASHION...."