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P'SS-srrIselee*sensi:k3:1*1.inr-1SL5”■jx?rLOiaaitGOOFINESS RUNS RIOT ON SCREENBringing Up Baby is Big Laugh-Producing Comedy at MetropolitanCalculated easily to makeeven the most scrupulously honest man forget his income-tax problems, Bringing Up Baby, the chief feature at the Metropolitan theatre, is the giddiest, goofiest concoction of movie fare that ever tickled fandom. ■It's so richly ludicrous that it is difficult, to describe it. Baby is not a child blut a leopard cub. Starting from that point you may draw yourir.-own conclusions as to what mayiritydisfk:ed'sisp-ISyi-2,IShappen, and you won’t , be within a thousand miles of the actual laugh-compelling incidents. Maybe youdon’t want . to laugh—but you’ll laugh.The bringers-up of said Baby are Katharine • Hepburn and - Cary Grant, and Katharine, as a comedienne, is almost as much a surprise success as was Irene Dunne when she first impinged on one’s eyesight as a fun purveyor,A game of golf for Cary resultsin his world going mad, growing madder when the Hepburn hilarity strikes him, and growing maddest when • she involves . him with the leopard. Cary is a sedate young professor in. charge bf a museum and that’s the only sedate matter in the whole affair.The Hepburn menace to the film comedy players is 'une u£ the picture’s strong commendations, as, under direction of Howard Hawks, something that should be nothing but farce is turned into high comedy. *There are numerous thrills in the accompanying film,’ International Settlement, It is a story of aotrigue concerning arms and ammunition for the Chinese, and in the cast are Dolores Del Kio, George Sanders, Dick Baldwin and. June Lang,—HJ3.S.Ucwd.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Sat, May 07, 1938
Page 16
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