Gayest of Forces
/)NE of the most imaginative and lustiest writers of this generation was Thorne Smith, author of “Night Life of the Gods,” whieh has been made into the most hilariously funny feature of the year, perhaps of all years. A contemporary says of him: “He’s the American Rabelais. He’s the maddes: wag in bookdom. He’s more American than Wodehouse, but not nearly So polite. The things he does with his characters! The things they say!” What would happen in the modern, mad world of to-day, were the ancient Greek gods and goddesses suddenly to come to life and descend in our midst? Can they “take it” or would they wish they were back on good old Mount Olympus, nectaring away in the sunny hills and dales? Never before has anything like this been seen on the screen. It’s mad, Insane and crazy, but it’s a riot of laughs from start to finish. The film is enacted by an allstar cast of screen and film favourites, headed by Alan Mowbray and Florine McKinnon.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 232, 28 June 1935, Page 16
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174Gayest of Forces Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 232, 28 June 1935, Page 16
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