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Film a Biting Parodyi JBY MAE T1NF.EThis film ii significant chiefly because It was destroyed by Gofman authorities on the eve of Hitler's power grab and ho* been reassembled and restored Viewed as an antiquity, its sardonic story has. tome merit and its technical flaws are excusable, altho by modem standards the acting isPetite Styleatrocious, the lighting poor, the sound track off key and there are several spots in which the screen simply goes blank.The story is a biting parody of the means by which the unscrupulous rise to the top Mack the knife is an arrogant crook, the business like bead of a gang of bandits. He has a ludicrous I; romance and a wedding ceremony with a simpering miss named Polly P e a c h u rn. daughter of a cunning char-vThe elegance of the cottumc look it tranilitrd into diminutive »ixc« for the petit* woman who n i ft et 5 inches or ttndft in tlua drtti and Jacket combination o! %tlk facet! brocade. One of a collection by Mae* tinettc Petlttt. il will be presented in faihion thowingi a! Chat. A. Stevens A Co on Thursday.TUB 3 PENNY OPERA'*\dif-tfil frt-H \t» »U t *»* llirlr.ll Ktw 114 ettrotd fcr U- tl.m»ita U kvrt Hi* enaiiUr It*Im U**. t-mu. til*. n#ulUUni -Unra 1st ltr*#e»r» tlliH ■Hi !• IW U-UITHU c-urr UeUHh IMm* fcwnj .............. r««rvi*fIVBp tNrtWR—\rSt»I .....*......(«*•TW VMHI rntsaiKrUi B*it »in. r**rdn%*Tim tiew*a........Maudn* i'•*! ......••..Miacter who controls all the professional beggars in England in the Victorian era. Papa Peachum is annoyed by the marriage and goes to the chief of police, demanding that Mack be hung. Otherwise, the queen’s coronation ceremonies will be ruined by * demonstration o! his most pitifully disguised mendicants After several unlikely episodes, the thieves 'join force* and apparently ; continue to live happily ever after.As usual wilh an annoyingly large number of imports, including some which are even more inexcusable became they arc of recent vintage. the English subtitles are extremely Inept
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