The Girl Friend

Producer Thurston Hall has too many irons in the fire to buy the musical comedy about Napoleon written by Roger Pryor, Victor Kilian, and Ray Walker. He hands the script back, but it turns out to be a serious drama about Napoleon written by hayseed Jack Haley. The boys being broke, they decide to take up Haley's invitation to discuss it with him down on the farm, which involves Pryor in a romance with Haley's cousin, Ann Southern. When Pryor reads Haley's script, he says it's trash. However, Haley and his grandmother have gone into hock to build a theater on the farm.

Haley's wishy-washy malapropisms don't interest me, nor does the question of how they're going to get out of this, get something bought for enough money to pay off the mortgage, and square Pryor with Miss Southern. We know that somehow everything will be settled by the end of this show, even if it must be handwaved away. The songs are all right, and the Gus Kahn lyrics well sung by Pryor and Miss Southern; "Two Together" is a pretty good song, even if it's no "One Alone". See if you can spot Dennis O'Keefe and Marie Wilson in the chorus.