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Show Irene Dunne And Douglas Fairbanks Jr. In Comedy A distinctly "different" type of musical drama is heralded in "Joy of Living," new musical comedy with Irene Dunne and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.-, and with new Jerome Kern melodies woven into the sprightly plot. The story deals with a stormy romance ro-mance between Miss Dunne, a popular popu-lar musical comedy star whose huge income is lavished on her selfish family, and Fairbanks, a self-confident young man, who has disinherited disinherit-ed his rich relatives to become a sort of sea vagabond, who preaches a doctrine of attaining happiness by doing what you want to do. Believing her duty lies in letting her parents and her sister have their own way, and in working to the limit of her endurance in order to satisfy their rapacious demands, Miss Dunne quarrels violently with Fairbanks Fair-banks when he urges her to throw her family overboard and learn to enjoy herself. And his unconventional unconven-tional efforts to convince her make for delightful complications in the story and lead to its gripping -climax when she at last sees her relatives rela-tives in their true light. Woven into this ingenious and intensely in-tensely human story are some of the year's catchiest tunes, with the lyrics ly-rics by Dorothy and Herbert Fields set to music by Jerome Kern, who wrote the melodies Miss Dunne sang in "Roberta" and "Show Boat." A spectacular Tyrolean dance routine, and settings that range from a tramp steamer and a cheap amusement amuse-ment park to a luxurious metropolitan metropoli-tan home, add to the color of "Joy of Living." Alice Brady as Miss Dunne's hypocritical hypo-critical mother heads the featured cast, which includes Guy Kibbee, Jean Dixon, Eric Blore, Lucille Ball and Warren Hymer. Tay Gornett directed his own production for RKO Radio. Playing at the Cameo Theatre . Sunday and Monday, August 21 and 22. |
