FAST-MOVING COMEDY
' CONVENTION CITY ' FOR EMPIRE Excellent entertainment, this time of a lighter type, is provided in ‘ Convention City,’ a bright, fast-moving comedy, dealing rather disparagingly but always humorously with the American urge for holding business conventions. commencing at the Empire on Friday. Trains are pictured bearing, in an' almost unbroken line, business people to and from Atlantic City, apparently the eternal scene of conventions. The story deals with one firm’s convention, at which the big event is to be the selection of a sales manager. One of two fancied candidates for the post is Ted Kent, played by Adolphe Menjou. Sophisticated still, but this time as a smart, “ wise-cracking ” salesman, Menjou is unlikely to lose any of his admirers as a result of his new type of role. Opposite him is Mary Aster also seen as a travelling “salesman.” There are plenty of laughs as the story briskly ■ unfolds, most of them resulting from the efforts _ot Kent's friendly rival, played by Guy Kibbce, to evade bis watchful wife and join in the brighter activities at the convention.
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Evening Star, Issue 21900, 11 December 1934, Page 11
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179FAST-MOVING COMEDY Evening Star, Issue 21900, 11 December 1934, Page 11
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