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TO-NIGHT Marie Dressler and Polly Moran, those inimitable comediennes, are I baclc again in "Reducing," It's a case of hysterics in a beauty parlour — perhaps the most prolific-of -comedy picture Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have ever given us.
"Reducing," as its name indicates, tells a tale of beauty parlours and pokes pleasant fun at those • who would lose or gain weight. Marie and Polly gambol through it with even greater facility of laughgetting than that evidenced in their earlier effort. The direction of "Chuck" Riesner, who also did "Caught Short," still further confirms I the place of this megaphoner as one of the masters of the comedy genre. A double love story is woven through the laughs of the production and gives it a smooth dramatic tone. The protagonists are Anita Page, "Buster" Collier, Jr., Sally Eilers and William Bakewell. These four are convincing and easy to look at in a well-. handled and highly dramatic situation. Lucien Littlefield, always an excellent character actor, - outdoes himself as "Elmer," the mail-carrier husband of the buxonr Marie.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 188, 1 April 1932, Page 2
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