Of "You Can't have Everything," currently headlined offering at the University, audiences want to know first "How Are the Ritz Brothers?". The rest they know almost before the picture starts. This is a program musical, pretty well wrapped up and dished out by Don Ameche, smoothing his insouciant swath, and Alice Faye, plugging her puckering path, through the regulation reel length.
As for the Ritz Brothers, they haven't added any new stuff. Which is not to say they are declining but simply that they haven't improved. Familiarity breeds disinteredness, and certainly these three zanies are in their specialty number easier to resist than they were a year ago. Funniest is their plot work. Best of all their entrance, when, seated at a piano, one suddenly arises, and the others slide off an upset bench onto the floor.
For the rest, the plot is girl meets boy, girl gets boy, boy looses girl, winn(ing)er take all, or something to that effect. As the successful Broadway producer, Charles Winninger turns in the most believable performance. He is the peg from which are hung the story's numerous coats and vests. Round him revolve the successful musicomedy author, Don Ameche, the would-be writer of tragedy, Alice Faye, the nigger in the woodpile, Gypsy Rose Lee, alias Louise Hovick, stooges just stooges, the Ritz Brothers, and incidentally Rubinoff and his violin.
Sentimentalists will enjoy the song "Afraid to Dream." Most people will enjoy the entire proceedings except for the not uncertain feeling that they have seen it all before. The sleepy will complain that there is too much noise.
Also at the University is "Flight From Glory" with Chester Morris and Whitney Bourne, dealing with the lives of outcast aviaters into whose world in the desert is suddenly thrust a woman. Most people are either arch admirers or ardent haters of Chester Morris. Others will find "Flight From Glory" a moderately exciting aero thriller.
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