With his familiar eye-rolling and handclapping, Eddie Cantor prances through a dull, uninspired musical comedy extravaganza "Kid Millions" at Loew's Orpheum this week. The picture follows approximately the same comedy lines as did its predecessors, Eddie Cantor plays the same type of part and sings the same manner of songs, and as before myriads of luscious girls are whisked past the camera's lens in baffling geometric designs. If you liked these elements before you will probably like them again. As an extra special treat the final sequence is produced in gay Technicolor and handled as well as any of the color experiments we have seen.

The story revolves about the inheritance of a sum of $77,000,000 to which Eddie is the rightful heir. The intrigue comes through the efforts of a couple of grafters (Ethel Merman and Warren Hymer), a scheming Virginia colonel (Burton Churchill) and an Egyptian potentate (Jesse Block) to do our hero out of the legacy. Eddie is pushed off the deck of a transatlantic liner, dangled over a steaming cauldron of oil and generally pushed around, but in the end he flies accidentally from Egypt to New York with the treasure clutched in his arms and all the city's moppets are treated to an ice cream orgy that leaves them fat as little porkers.

A fine array of talent has been gathered up to produce the film's musical numbers, but the combined efforts of Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn, Burton Lane and Harold Adamson, and Irving Berlin failed to produce a number that we are aching to hear again. Best tunes of the lot: "When My Ship Comes In," "With Your Head on My Shoulder."

As the public has come to expect, the entire picture, is carried along on Eddie Cantor's shoulders. He gets off some of the oldest gags that we have heard in a major "comedy" production, but with his irresistably suggestive eyes he manages to get away with it and the audience seem to be tickled most of the time.

Though little is gained by comparison with his earlier pictures, it is hard to avoid the feeling that "Kid Millions" is not up to the usual Cantor par.