This one is about David Niven as a magician whose hand is ever so much quicker than Broderick Crawford's eye. Result: he gets the gal, Loretta Young in this case. The old chestnut about the society girl running off with an entertainer is once again with us, but aside from a few emotional lapses, the picture is good.
Hugh Herbert is Niven's valet and does his best to end the thought that no man is a hero to his valet. Billie Burke, C. Aubrey Smith, and Raymond Walburn are acceptable in the supporting roles.
The other feature, "Three Sons," explains how some Windy City lad made a pile of money in The Bazaar. For this is the story of The Store and how it grew. If you want the dope on how to found a dynasty and how, once it is founded, to end it, this is the picture for you. J. Edward Bromberg is the only oasis in an otherwise barren cinema. The final scene of the father--Edward Ellis--dying with the blinking Bazaar sign in the background was more than a body could bear. We hobbled from the theatre in tears; it was a shame to see the Pardways go down the drain.
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