"Thanks a Million" is one of the better musical shows of the season despite beautiful Dick Powell who threatened to fly away at any moment. No one can deny that he has a voice well worth listening to but he would be better enjoyed if he stopped fluttering his eyelids and flapping his arms.

Ann Dvorak, Patsy Kelley, and Fred Allen all contribute their bits with considerable success and both Paul Whiteman and Rubinoff do bits in the gubernatorial contest about which the story is centered. Powell is drafted by the party bosses to take the place of their drunken candidate who is played in the true manner of the nickleodeon by Raymond Walburn. Powell sings his way into the hearts of the voters and then gains their confidence by exposing his own backers as a bunch of crooks. It seemed to make no difference to him that he had promised to keep the arrangement with his backers confidential. The story is entirely improbable but the music is good, the lines snappy in the Allen style, and the cast entertaining.

There seems to be nothing that can be said about "Peter Ibbetson" except that no one should have tried to put it on the screen. One of the most beautiful stories has been considerably dulled by the attempt to transpose purely mental processes to a visible stage. The picture, however, is not as thoroughly unbearable as it could have been with unskilled directing and acting. While Gary Cooper reverts to the cowboy in a few scenes, he turns in a quite creditable performance as Peter, and Ann Harding is even better as the Duchess of Towers. It was a pleasant surprise to find Donald Meek taking the part of blind Mr. Slade so well. Gogo was played by Dickie Moore while the role of Mimsey was taken by Virginia Weidler. Both of the children did well although they were made to cry too much. Their part of the story, unfortunately was telescoped to such an extent that the importance of the childhood relation which is so carefully established by du Maurois is largely lost and the explaining sub-title is entirely stupid in calling Gogo's life "foreshadowed" without showing why.

The audience persists in booing Roosevelt and applauding Hoover.