The Rooney Again —But Not Enough

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 29, 30 December 1938, Page 14

The Rooney Again —But Not Enough

["Hold That Kiss.’"’ Universal. Directed by Edwin L. Marin. Starring Maureen O’Suilivan, Dennis O'Keefe, Mickey Rooney. Just releascd.] Y main complaint against M "Hold That Kiss’’ is that there is not enough of Mickey Rooney. But what there is of him is, as usual, good-the best thing in the picture. He plays Dan Cupid to a couple of young lovers (Maureen O’Sullivan and Dennis O’Keefe) who both pretend to be rich and are disappointed

when they find they aren’t. The hero is a young man who works in a travel agency, the heroine an assistant at a frock shop. They meet at a fashionable wedding, attended fer purely business reasons, mistake one. another for wealthy guests, and keep up the biufz. When they fall in love, each decides to forget the other, because of the imagined difference of their stations in life. But young Mickey Rooney, who has a romantic soul as well as a passion for swing music, isn’t going to let any desirable young man slip through his pretty sister’s hands. He "fixes" things se thoroughly that there are plenty of amusing complications in the story, even though you can see how it’s going to end almost as seon as it’s started. Good, Clean Fun

é (FFOLD That Kiss" is just a little picture, but an entertaining one, in spite of the-from my point of view. anyway--small helping of the Rooney, and the trite and slender story. It has good teamwork and plenty of good, clean fun in the situations and dialogue. And of course it has an excellent moral, if you set any store by such things, which is that it pavs to tell the truth-even to your girl friend. Dan Star DENNIS O'KEEFE is the husky young man whom you may remember as Wallace Beery’s boxing son in "Bad Man of Brimstone.’ He and Maureen O'’Sullivan make a pleasant young couple. There are some _ other worthwhile players, including George Parbier, Jessie Ralnh and Frank Albertson: but next to the Rooney, my favourite in "Hold That Kiss" (which is a silly title} was a monstrous St. Bernard, which the hero wins at a dog show and presents to the heroine, thereby transferring to her the responsibility of finding food and room for a Sf. Bernard in a small flat already inhabited by four human beingsand 8 cat!