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NEXT MONDAY AND TUESDAY
Laurel & Hardy Film
Is Week-End Bill
At Imperial
Life is "just one sweet thing af
ter another” to Mickey Rooney in
his latest picture, "Girl Crazy,”
which will play a special holiday
engagement at the Imperial on
Saturday and Sunday, then may
be seen next Monday or Tuesday
at the Peoples. The trouble is,
the “sweet things” are girls, and
that's why his old man, a wealthy
newspaper publisher, decides to
send his son to Arizona.
Not that there aren’t any tasty
damosels in Arizona; far from it.
But there aren’t any at Cody Col
lege, where the lad’s papa has en
rolled him. It’s a he-man school
and it’s in the middle of the de
sert. Naturally, Mickey’s dad feels
that in such a place there won’t
be any pretty-pretties.
Before the coming of Mickey,
such is true of Cody. But he
hasn’t been there long before the
place is pink with patooties, so to
speak. Why, the Eastern playboy
hasn’t had time to hang up his
hat before he has found himself a
little something sugary in the
shape of Judy Garland, the grand
daughter of the dean.
And before the story is done
there are more girls trying to get
into Cody than there are down
town on nights when the depart
ment stores are open.
However, that is as it should be
in a musical comedy, which is
what “Girl Crazy” is, in a large
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and costly way.
This piece is based on the stage
hit of the same name which was
produced on Broadway a few sea
sons gone. The songs are by
George and Ira Gershwin and you
hear again such lilting numbers
as “Embraceable You,” “I Got
Rhythm,” ‘‘Bidin’ My Time” and
“Not For Me.” There’s a nifty
number, called “Fascinating Rhy
thm,’ in which Mickey Rooney
goes to town at the piano, to the
accompaniment of Tommy Dor
sey’s dandy orchestra.
Judy Garland is much to the
fore, with pleasing singing, and
she also shows to advantage in
some dances. Rooney is all over
the place with his well-known
brand of humor, backed up by
“Rags” Ragland and Nancy Walk
er. I
“Girl Crazy” is good escapist en
tertainment, and the young folk
should find it right down their
jolly alley.
* * • * *
“Adventure In Iraq” will pro
vide the Wednesday-only entertain
ment on next week’s Imperial pro
gram. In reality, the film is a re
write of the play, “The Green
Goddess” in the light of present
day events. In the present ver
sion, the locale has been changed
from India to Iraq and the villain
from a rajah to a sheik in league
with the Nazis. John Loder and
Ruth Ford have the leading roles.
*****
“The Dancing Masters,” Thurs
day-Friday film on next week’s
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Imperial program, offers good holi
day entertainment for Laurel
Hardy fans, who will find plenty
of opportunity for laughter in the
latest opus of the two famed
comedians.
This time we see the comedy
stars as operators of a dancing
school. Laurel teaches the ballet
while Hardy takes care of the jive.
Hardy takes out an accident policy
on Laurel with a phony insurance
company operated by a bunch of
racketeers. Most of the fun has
to do with the attempts of the
comedians to raise enough money
to promote an invention helpful to
the prosecution of the war. The
inventor (Robert Bailey) is the
sweetheart of one of their pupils
(Trudy Marshall), whose father
(Matt Briggs,) is a rich industria
list. The father is opposed to the
romance, wanting Miss Marshall
to be married to a chap of his
own choosing. Everything works
out well when the industrialist
changes his mind to the extent of
financing Bailey’s invention.
There is one sequence that ap
peals heavily to the child’s love of
action and excitement. It takes
place aboard a runaway bus on
which Laurel and Hardy are pas
sengers.
We withhold the name of the
Saturday film on next week’s Im
perial program, because of the fact
it is an unusually strong picture,
and we prefer to spring it on our
readers as a pleasant “surprise”
for their New Year’s entertain
ment. Pull details will be found
in our next week’s issue.
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