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Show "Kid Millions" Stacks up With Cantor's Best The annual Cantor picture is the annual Cantor epic only more so! Eddie is back with a pictureful of gocd comedy, swell srng numbers, girl numbers, funny gags and, what seemed to us, even more lavish backgrounds than the splendiferous settings in which he has heretofore appeared. "Kid Millions" will be a treat for Cantor fans, and a swell evening's entertainment for the uninitiated. un-initiated. There is less Cantor in "Kid Millions" Mil-lions" than in the star's former flickers, but that only makes the customers want more of him, so why kick about it? The many absences of Cantor from the screen are compensated com-pensated for- by the presence of the many excellent supporting players, all of whom contribute plenty in the way of music and comedy. Goldwyn has shot the works for this production, wrhich takes Cantor from a barge in Brooklyn to an ocean liner, an Egyptian palace, and winds up with Eddie as the owner of an ice-cream factory in the U. S. A. The final sequences are done in color. It is a beautiful wind-up, and really inspired, both in its conception and the way the idea has been carried out. The icecream ice-cream factory scenes are of the stuff that kids dream about the grownups grown-ups will go for it just as much. Willy Pogany is credited with the color direction. The picture starts off fast with a peach of a song number, contributed by Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson, Donald-son, called "An Earful of Music", and except for a couple of scenes on shipboard, never lets up on pace." "Head On My Shoulder" and "Okay Toots" too, sound like naturals, the former putting a nod in the direction direc-tion of Burton Lane and Harold Adamson. "Kid Millions" is long on good gags and "solo" comedy, for which Arthur Sheekman, Nat Pen-in and Nunnally Johnson share writing credite and out of which Ethel Merman, Mer-man, Eve Sully (a rot!) and Warren Hymer get the most. A 'newcomer, Doris Davenport, acquits herself nicely in a brief rDle, and George Murphy bowled us over with as croo-ny croo-ny a voice as we've heard in many a moon. With an improved make-up Murphy, who has an easy, natural charm, should be taking his pick of roles before long. Ann Sothem sings nicely, and Berton Churchill, Paul Harvey, Otto Hoffman and others do their, bits toward the success of the production. Coming to the Cameo Theatre, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, February Feb-ruary 17, 18 and 19. |
