Dorothy Lamour Goes Mexican

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 24, 25 November 1938, Page 16

Dorothy Lamour Goes Mexican

[Tropic Holiday." Paramount. Directed by Theodore Reed. Starring Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland. Just released.] OROTHY LAMOUR, having escaped from the crocodiles in ‘‘Her Jungle Love’’-a matter for rejoicing or regret according to the extent of one’s appreciation of Miss Lamour’s comely contoursis now to be seen for a change in Spanish dress. But not for a whole picture. That was not to be expected or, should I say, desired. So into "Tropic Holiday" they have obligingly introduced. a sequence of a semi-nudist Mexican bathing party: which enables: Miss: Lamour to don the familiar sarong. The story of "Tropic Holiday" need not detain us, being once again the orphan child of the production whom nobody apparently bothered about. But there is plenty of romantic Mexican moonlight, tuneful Mexican music at colourful Mexican fiestas, and a generous helping of Bob Burns and the ample Martha Raye. There’s also ‘an amusing little Mexican boy called Bobbie Noya, whose role consists of playing gooseberry to ‘hero and heroine, and a_persuasive Mexican tenor, by name . Tito Guizar.

Local Colour

IN "Tropic Holiday," Martha Raye looks more than ever like a relief map of Taranaki standing on end; but she’s a bit less boisterous than usual, and her bull-fight seauence definitely has _ its

moments-several of them. By wooing Miss Lamour by moonlight to the sound of Mexican guitars, Ray Milland (a Hollywood script-writer seeking local colour) maintains his cinematic reputation as a young man with a preference for native girls, but adds little to his reputation as an actor. © Yet he’s a likable fellow. and Miss Lamour, whether in sarong or skirts, is undoubtedly to be preferred to Binnie Barnes, the jealous film star from Hollywood, who turns up in Mexico to spoil the tropic holiday when she becomes suspicious that her boyfriend is laying the local colour on a trifle too thickly. Best Laugh: Bob Burns walking into the sea for a fake suicide act and being hauled out by a fishingboat. He describes it by saying he started in "A Star Is Born" and finished up in "Captains Courageous."