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Show ACTRESS GOOD fl BUT PLAY WEAK H Marjorie Rambeau Shines ) Though "The Goldfish" Is Cloying Sweet By JOHN O'DONNELI NEW YORK. April - The color- H ful "God knows" 'Which Marjorie H Rambeau Intoned early this season at the conclusion of each act of Z(" LLLLm Akms' "Daddy Gone A-Huntlng H must leap to her lips when anyone Inquires why Goldfish" was re- lected ns her present vehicle. Fairer than ever Is Marjorie- j; first ax Jenny Jones, a garnln who Is J vaguely suggestive of Klkl: then as H Genevieve, a lady who toils not. noith- spin." and finally. In scene Slruppy with sentiment, as th'-I th'-I pie tit dUChesa who rejects the tun-of tun-of titlwd ease to go back to Cone-.- song plugger stV H slIK '8 SATISFACTORY, Again Miss Rambeau charms with HH blends ability as a H comedienne with keen sense of h;.: H In she i- H play in bringing "The Goldfish" from H forgotten to change was another sad case of H French farce on the American stage; H the cocktail served in the soupbowl. H I he light and of non H senst reshaped into a heavy-footed, H Short-winded affair which laboff- to force laughs by H ture of burlesque, satire and senti- H a heroine purified by the in- H traduction of marriage licenses H Thus the of ' L'Ecole des Co- H christened "Her TErfce by American godfather H then given finally presented "The Goldfish THE PI I "The Goldfish" the story of th'- H social advancement of Jenny Jones H first married to the slim composer of H ' I Loved Her Till She Moved Away." H HI Coney Island cabarets. Both are ten.- J Jenny takes her first step up the I ladder on the arm of a mlddl?- sober business man. H Then follows the real captain tit H Hamilton J. Pbwera Pow- H dies opportunely and Jenny, now rii h metropolitan widow . decldt - H to cement her social position H lessons tn deportment and conv.r tion. She employs a Polish noble- H and learns about manners from H In the denouement, the author said BBBH it with sirup. About to surrender H to Import unities of the Duke i BBBBJ Middlesex. Jenny finds that she lonjifl for the jazz and temperament of th BBBBBfl BJ r. t k to oT.n LOVE. Perhaps," lovely H "perhaps. In the glare and blare of HH , Roseland I could recapture my light- IBBBBBj hearted, care-free self of six Ion IBBBBBj BBBBBj Her first love returns, barely eS- BBBvbI rapine from the arms of the De'ro:' BBBBBj waiting for him at th- BJ ! Kit.. Together they go out into the BBBBBj night hack to where they haaJ no" BJ six long years ago. In Coney slant IH |