Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 7, 1938

The Goldwyn Follies (Samuel Goldwyn). Producer Goldwyn is no subscriber to the theory of his rival producer, Darryl Zanuck: that a screen musicomedy should be tightly woven, integrating songs and dances as part of its body proper. Mr. Goldwyn's technique is to spin a revue: a slender thread of narrative linking a series of specialties.

The specialties displayed in The Goldwyn Follies are sometimes brilliant, sometimes dull, always expensive. The Ritz

Brothers do three violent routines, sing a song, Pussy Pussy, that has hit possibilities. Zorina and the Metropolitan Opera ballet appear in two...

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