Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-07-06 | Page 12 | Fields as Glib Swindler Brings Laughs in 'Poppy' at Capita

MOVIE REVIEWS Fields as s Glib Swindler Br BriN Laughs in Poppy Toppy at Capt Capi W. W C. C Fields Fields as the silver tongued Professor Protessor Eustace McGargle is in his natural element In Poppy an entertaining story of oC the straight- straight laced Victorian mid period period- which I opened at th the Capitol theater Satur Satur- da day The veteran comedian who need not take second place even to Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Jim Jim- my Durante in the matter o of nasa nasal appendages bring to life again the therole rolo role which took him out of the juggler jug Jug- gl gler r class CIMS and started him on the path of oC patter that leads to gold and glory He is 15 a 11 patent medicine specialist doubling of course In the shell game and other small time carnival rackets His glib tongue gets him out of oC many a tight spot and when his tongue falls fails there is always the I high wheeled bicycle or the mayors mayor's I horse Tables Turned Both are called into action as he I escapes after engineering his foster daughter into a n large inheritance only onty to have the fraud discovered But the tables arc are turned again a athe as the girl proves to be the actual heiress and Professor McGargle has hasa a home and haven at last The professor however is a true knight of the carnival trail and so helping himself to the mayors mayor's ha hat and cane and all the cigars in th the house out he goes Koes back to his be beloved beloved beloved be- be loved sarsaparilla and shell game Cast as his lovely lovey Poppy is Hochelle Rochelle Rochelle Ro Ro- chelle Hudson while her youthful swain is Richard Cromwell as the mayors mayor's son They make a delightfully delightfully delight delight- fully tully romantic pair Others in the cast ast include Catherine Catherine Catherine Cath Cath- erine Doucet as the fluttering Countess who stands to inherit the fortune should Poppy's true Identity not be established Lynne Overman as the lawyer playing playing play play- ing both ends against the middle Maude Eburne and Granville Bates Song of the Nation A special patriotic feature is The Song of a Nation telling in Ia dramatic dramatic dramatic dra dra- matic fashion how Francis Scott Key wrote The Star-Spangled Star Ban Ban- ner ncr A new Pop Popeye eye cartoon Grantland Rice sports feature and Fox Movie Movie- tone news complete the bill incidentally Is getting into the political campaign with both feet teet First there was Pres i- i 1 dent Roosevelt accepting the I tt cral cratic c nomination Then Laj Lan had their Inning a as the ute sas governor caught a rado ratio Finally Lew Lehr the theand I and buggy candidate brought brough J and laughter r from adherents camps fl