New York Times review


So far as her [Janet Gaynor's] singing is concerned, she is not supposed to be any prima donna, but just Molly Carr of Yorkville, Manhattan, who falls in love with Jack Cromwell (Mr. Farrell), the scion of a wealthy family...Mr. Farrell's singing is possibly just what one might expect from the average young man taking a chance on singing a song at a private entertainment. His presence is, however, ingratiating and his acting and talking are natural. He may not strike one as an experienced stage actor, but one is gazing upon a motion picture comedy in which the people are not on a stage, but walking through real roads and into houses that look real and sometimes are real. So his speech and even his singing suit the part.

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I found it rather fascinating this musical went for a touch of "reality" in most of their numbers, unlike later musicals where the boy and girl are sitting on a swing and singing and their number is fully orchestrated. Here the musical accompaniment appeared to be mostly what was shown - a piano, an autoharp - of course the "society show" numbers were naturally fully orchestrated.

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