NEW WHEELER-WOOLSEY COMEDY

Evening Star, Issue 21510, 7 September 1933, Page 1

NEW WHEELER-WOOLSEY COMEDY

'GIRL CRAZY? FOR GRAND If variety is the spice of life, the new all-star rollicking comedy, ‘ Girl Crazy, ’ which comes to the Grand Theatre tomorrow, is a snappily seasoned entertainment dish. It offers mirth and melody, romance and action, beauty and atmosphere. In the cast are , comedy stars, a child prodigy. Broad- ‘ way beauties, Hollywood cowboys, Mexican senoritas, two gunmen, and polished : villains. The action shifts from city tenement to Western dude ranch and Mexican resort, and ranges from riproaring chases to rhythmic dances and tender love scenes. ' Heading the imposing array of talefat are the inimitable Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, who frolic to new comedy heights in this all-star musical melange. They come forth with new jokes, new quips, and scores of original comedy situations. Ranging from the good old form of merry-making to subtle humour, the trio forms a hilariously happy combination in a story of music interspersed with dainty damsels, villains, cowboys, and colour orchestra. Eddio Quillan carries the romantic lead of a girl crazy youth who transforms a respectable cattle ranch into a whoopee “dude” resort. Mitzi Green, Hollywood’s child mimic wonder, plays as a pestiferous little sister, and the romance and beauty brigade is headed by Dorothy Lee, Arline Judge, Kitty Kelly, and Lita Chevret. Stanley Fields and Chris Pin Martin play the shoot-and-run villains. The story deals with a girl crazy youth who is sent to the quiet of' a Western ranch to cure him of his weakness for beautiful women. He imports a snappy jazz band, a bevy of Broadway beauties, dresses the cowpunchers in dinner jackets, and turns the ranch into a playboy’s paradise. Melodies which are liberally sprinkled through the fast and furious action and laughs are original compositions by George Gershwin, modern music’s master hit creator.