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Gerstein, Evelyn | October 14, 1931 issue

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The talkies have slipped deftly into the diversions of the stage musical-comedy form without creating a form of their own. In "Palmy Days" a talkie version of the stage form, edition of 1931-32, more comic than musical, alert and lightly derisive, its dance routines still photographed from the studio rafters, a lush, extravagant, wisecracking machine revolving about the genuinely comic talents of the singing Eddie Cantor. Its girls are astonishingly beautiful in a world of great physical beauty, its close-ups are not too persistent, arid the tempo of the dialogue never lags.

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MOTION pictures; PERFORMING arts; PALMY Days (Film); CANTOR, Eddie, 1892-1964; SOUND motion pictures; COMEDY
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