It is clear that the producers are inclined to believe that the public of late have run after fashions rather than personalities, The latest fashion has been the more or less simple slapstick, William Powell and Myrna Loy were inclined to initiate this in the "Thin Man." Soon after there followed Gary Cooper in his quaint and his and tremendously successful "Mr.|the Everybody had to go foolish and Oxford," fantastic. What might be called "polite slapstick" was cultivated by film actors and actresses who hitherto had taken life on the screen seriously and sentimentally, It is difücult to say whether or no this wave of comedy is about to end.
The companies are uncertain but they are still trying. They believe that the great public are still grateful for being made to laugh and they are probably Tight if only the laughter can be raised. The trouble is that after a while the laughter-raising attempts become uninspired, mech-animal and unsuccessful.
At any rate, Mr. Darryl F. Zanuck Still believes in the formula and is encouraging Simone Simon to go wild in "Love and Kisses" Mile, Simon was able to prove to Mr. Zanuck that in one of her early French pictures she had gone almost as wild as Mabel Normand in the palmy days of slapstick.
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