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The Crimson Moviegoer

Astaire and Rogers Sing and Dance in "Follow the Fleet", "The Widow From Monte Carlo" Amusing

"Follow the Fleet" heads a very good bill at the University Theatre today and tomorrow. The Irving Berlin music, sung and danced to perfectly by Fred Astaire and his tow-haired partner, provide hearty amusement. The story, as properly in a musical, is not much, but is gratifyingly free of dear old U. S. Navy claptrap and features a pleasantly satiric song about the Atlantic and the Pacific and "the admiral who's never been to sea." "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket," "Let Yourself Go," "Get Thee Behind Me Satan," and "Where Are You?" are all hits. A wistful little girl named Harriet Hilliard sings the latter two.

Best shot is Fred Astaire's monkey dressed in a sailor suit presenting a bouquet of flowers to Ginger Rogers. Most incredible is that of the admiral holding up inspection to have his guests watch Fred Astaire's sailor-boy band.

In "The widow from Monte Carlo," with Dolores Del Rio and Warren William, there is much conniving and excited scheming concerning a Duchess (Dolores) who wants to get away from her stiff-necked relatives and friend (Colin Clive) to whom she is engaged. Warren William, who kisses her twice before he has met her, wins the duchess by helping her out of her pickle. It is all very amusing, with good dialogue and a decent enough rehash of the old Idle Rich-Idle Nobility plot sequence to command interest. Warren Hymer is good as an American gangster who steals back a letter of the Duchess's from social climber Louise Fazenda.

Donald Duck steals the show in a Mickey Mouse short entitled "Mickey's Fire Brigade," and the bill is completed with Paramount News.

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