CRIMSON PLAYGOER

This week's feature attraction is the screen adaptation of last year's musical comedy success "Music in the Air." The music and lyrics by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein have been retained and are the redeeming feature of an otherwise dull and tiresome operetta adaptation.

Gloria Swanson, who has unwisely returned to the flickers, and John Boles are cast in the leading roles. Douglass Montgomery and June Lang are prominent in the supporting cast. The story is centered around two temperamental singers, an operetta production in Munich, and two Havarian ingenues who finally leave the glamor of the city and return to the simple pleasures of country life. The acting is burlesqued and lacks the humor and naturalness characteristic of the original.

The entire program is a musical one. There is another short musical resinne on the screen which apparently has been revived from the Stygian depths where it should have been left to repose in.