FARCICAL COMEDY

Evening Star, Issue 21743, 11 June 1934, Page 10

FARCICAL COMEDY

• TAKE A CHANCE ' FOR EMPIRE ‘‘ Take a Chance,’ the new Paramount musical film, which will commence at the Empire on Friday, is a gay bit of nonsense concerning the careers of four carnival side-show entertainers who become tired of small-town life and decide to snatch fame and fortune on Broadway. James Dunn and Cliff Edwards, who just cannot keep from pocketing other people’s watches and miscellaneous valuables, make a splendid team: Dunn, who has played romantic leads exclusively in the past, steps over into farce comedy as though bom to it. June Knight and Lillian Roth support them well. ‘ Take a Chance * has a • much stronger plot than the usual musical film, besides boasting of a chorus of Broadway’s prettiest girls and at least five hit songs. Opening at a smalltown carnival, the picture follows the careers of the four irrepressible youngsters safely through the villainies of a crooked gambler and a jealous actress, and ends with a double romance between Dunn and Miss Roth and Charles (“ Buddy ”) Rogers and June Knight. Robert Gleckler, as the gambler who plots the ruin of Miss Knight, and Lillian Bond, as the actress who wants to force Rogers to marry her, provide both thrills and laughter throughout the story. )