The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 27, 1933, Page 8

8 “T had to give up stenographie work. I’m too near-sighted.” i. AT THE Twelve Comics in ‘Pro- fessional Sweetheart’ Satire, farce, slapstick, subtlety and every other imaginable phase of com- edy are portrayed by twelve masterly comedians in a screen treatment of ragio broadcasting with “Professional Sweetheart,” RKO-Radio Picture. Ginger Rogers and Norman Foster are in the leading roles of this spright- ly comedy-drama, with a long record of stage and screen success in serio- comic characterizations. Gregory Ratoff, in “Professional Sweetheart” is Ipswich the Wash Cloth King. He showed his mettle as @ comedian in “What Price Holywood” and “Once in a Lifetime.” Two other reigning comedy favorites, Zasu Pitts and Lucien Littlefield, are responsible for additional laughs in featured roles as a sob sister and radio announcer respectively. The remaining seven comedians of “Professional Sweetheart” are Allen Jenkins and Frank McHugh — of the stage’s “Burlesque,” “Excess Baggage,” “Front Page” and “Blessed Event,” and the screen’s “Lawyer Man,” “42nd Street,” “Millie,” “Crowd Roa “Life Begins,” now seen in represent tive roles as press agents, Edgar Ker nedy and Franklin Pangborn, form- erly together in several two-reelers, as an exasperated radio sponsor and an aesthetic “personality creator.” Betty Furness’ youthful humor, Sterling Holloway’s “dead pan” antics and Frank Darien’s boisterous comedy complete the film’s featured perform- ances. ‘The production staff of “Profession- a] Sweetheart” is as practical in com- edy as is the cast. William Seiter, director, was schooled ini the Mack Sennett studio and directed most of the Wheeler-Woolsey productions. H. N. Swanson, associate producer, is former editor of College Humor mag- azine. Maurine Watkins, author and scenarist, is famed for her pungent wit remembered in the biting dialogue of “Chicago.” — THIS CURIOUS WORLD — new Fox musical comedy which opens MOVIES ‘It’s Great to Be Alive’ Is a Swell Picture In “It's Great To Be Alive,” the at the Paramount tomorrow, you have @ full season of hilarity. In story, act- ing, music and dancing, it is as satis- fying a piece of entertainment as has been seen hereabouts in a long—too long—time. Telling the story of 8 man who finds himself literally the last man on earth, the film depicts a world popu- lated entirely by women, each of whom has one end in view—to get that solitary male. It is a dread disease that wipes the globe clean of the masculine sex. The women are unprepared for such a contingency, and what goes on toward a solution of this emergency forms the extremely funny basis for the picture. Raul Roulien, the South American star, plays the highly enviable role of being the last man. The fact that he is a castaway on a desert. island when the scourge of men occurs, mere- ly adds to his own amazement when he finds in himself a complete sex. In the story he is an aviator, popular with the women even in a world of » |men, but devastating as the only man in the world. Roulien’s performance is excellent. He is a finished actor, and a man who knows how to sing songs.. In this, his first effort at American stardom, he is wholly suce cessful. WRIGLEY'S SWEETENS BREA ies THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1933 THE GUMPS— TWO PEOPLE OUT OF LUCK TWENTY THREE CENTS FOR THAT BEUTKE. Sen. OF CHICKEN? WHY THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS! IS AT THE SMALL ON “THE STREET, VT WAS JUST” o MucH FOR. NOW SHE KNOWS WAS SOME EST size: ¢ BESIDES OENTED, FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS (a WE KNOW, NOW, ) 1 KNEW IT WASN'T A A PHANTOM...HEY! WHAT'S COMING PHANTOM FROM ‘TWO MEN COMING BOYOUBOY: WILL KITTY Ge GLAD TO SEE ME BACK HO @ETER ALLTHESE MONTHS! GZA BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES I THE OLD AND WS NEW. WELL- THERERE- BREAD AND THE ¢ TAKE A ANO LOOK AT “THEM, MILLIE— ‘THOS 7 THE LAST THERESHCROCERIES WRUL HANG BEANS AND THE. KERS MiLK= [ SESSLER (SES SH ASSEN” AND THIS IS Wane we CAUSE MY WOEPENO! TANS Reruses ‘vo MARR WEALTHIEST MAN _. OUR Owns LIVING FROM NOw_ ON= aus TRALAN | FIRED Over His & HEAD TO SCARE HIM (LL BET HE WON'T COME PROWLING AROUND HERE AGAIN. /4 ANYBODY, ONCLE WALT | SAW (T ANT tr was A THIS 19 ALL } sapoweD apour! ae SHE'S CRAZY ABOUT HIM, THOUGH— AT THE WEDNESDAY BRIDGE CLUB SHE SAID THAT AIN'T A BLINKIN' WHALE y FACTRY, ; STAB ME DEAD IFN IT THE JONAW'S CREW LOOKS ON DUMBFOUNDED, AS THEIR MODERN RIVALS FLASH PAST THEM, \ Gee wiz! GOT AIRPLANES WEVERN THING) ENEN SIGHTS A WHALE. THEY WEAR THE BOOMING OF THE RIVALS GUNS, AND THAT'S ALL. ND BY THE TIME THEY ARRIVE, THE HUNT IS Coe WMALSS, SEVEN TIMES AS MANN AE HE JONAH HAS BAGGED ALL SEAGON, 15 THE RIVAL'S CATCH,