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Show "Sunny Side Up" Fox Films has Another tremendous tremen-dous money-maker in "Sunny Side Up," the latest Janet Gaynor-Charles Gaynor-Charles Farrell which will op?n at the Laurel Theatre in Fairview on September 14, 15 and 16. Like "The Cock Eyed World," it follows fol-lows the lines of least resistance; it bases its appeal more upon outside influences than upon any work which the co-stars might offer. Paradoxical as that sounds, it can hardly be escaped. What we mean is that the picture is built up. It has a thread of a story, hut not a particularly important one. And taking this as a working work-ing basis, several hands have joined to insert a song here, a gag there, a new situation in one spot and a dab of color in another, and the general result is attained by many hands. In "7th Heaven" you could safely say that Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell were solely accountable account-able for that masterpiece. No other two people could have approximated approx-imated their artistry. But in "Sunny "Sun-ny Side Up" most any co-starring team could have done just as well. But this doesn't take a thing away from Miss Gaynor nor from Mr. Farrell. Both are splendid in their singing and dancing debuts and they give repeated evidence of our conviction that they are the greatest young team in Hollywood. Mr. Farrell still has that appear- i ance of fresh clean-limbed youth, youth which looks upon the work;, "with smiling eyes, which will quickly! resesnt outraged feelings or unre-, quitec'. Kve. And here he is a vastly improved actor. The picture itself is slightly rou-dy rou-dy as was the case with that other oth-er Fox release mentioned above. It is another Cinderella thing, wito little Yorkvilie girl ending up! as the bride of the Southampton' .society youth. But, after all, the jilt, is incidental. It is more in ilia nature of a vehicle upon which to hang the songs and the wisc-cia.-.ks and the scenery than anything any-thing else. Seven new songs composed by De-Sylva. De-Sylva. brown and Henderson are iiitioduced. Two of them are "I'm a Dreamer," sung by Miss Gaynor! and "If I Had a Talking Picture of j You," sung by Mr. Farrell. I There is another number called Turn on the Heat," which is one I of the most ingenious ever seen up- I Ai the screen. It deals with Esksi- mo giiU "getting so hot" while , dancing that they transform Alaska into the Sahara Desert. The scene opens in the icy wastes of the Far North in a colony of iglooes, but when the girls begin dancing the igloos melt away, the snow and ice How oil and soon palm trees be-?m be-?m to prow. In the end the ground culencs fire and the girls have to jump into the river. Meanwhile Mean-while they put over some dancing the like of which you have never seen in your favorite movies. |