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Films: The Uses of Humor
Troy, William | March 20, 1935 issue

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How false it is to maintain that humor, like love, poetry and certain other rare commodities in this world, is altogether without use is one of the reflections that one is likely to take away from "The Whole Town's Talking." This newest vehicle for the expanding talents of Edward G. Robinson is incomparably the most entertaining Hollywood offering of the season. For witty observation of the American flora and fauna, for rapidity of movement, and for general excellence of acting and direction, it can only be compared, among recent efforts in the comic field, with last year's "It Happened One Night."

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WHOLE Town's Talking, The (Film); ROBINSON, Edward G.; MOTION pictures; IT Happened One Night (Book); BOTANY; UNITED States
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