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MOVIEGOER

At the Metropolitan

Anyone seeing this picture will undoubtedly have the feeling that he has seen it before. The stars are Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray but they might just as well be Joan Crawford and Melvyn Douglas or any other appropriate combination of light sophisticates. The story is the now hackneyed one of the beautiful business executive who has everything she wants but love, which is provided by a man with broad shoulders who treats her with perfect nonchalance.

What makes this film better than average is a fast-moving story and a dialogue par excellence. The advertising company of A. M. MacGregor, Inc, is made up of Miss Russell and our own Bob Benchley, who spends his working hours playing a glorified pin-ball machine in the back office. The ruling feminine touch rakes in the profits, and is hampered only by the jealous wives of baldheaded company presidents who fear with good reason the extra-business relations of Miss Russell and their husbands. Enter Fred MacMurray, who takes the wives out to dinner and makes everybody happy.

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