Tbe Moviegoer

W. C. Fields, of the red face and ad-libbing tongue, steals the show this week at Keith's Memorial. As Guthbert J. Twillie, he teams up with oomphy Mae West in what amounts to a series of bedroom vaudeville acts. There is no plot--which is to be expected in a Fields picture--and the supporting cast of Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Donald Meek, and Anne Nagel are left to shifts for themselves. But there is no lack of action. Mae West, as the siren Flower Belle of Last Gasp Saloon, stages a fake marriage with Guthbert J. Twillie, in order to become a "decent lady," and then floors fidelity. Fields spends his time quaffing alcoholic beverages, gambling with stacked cards, and coining such phrases as "I perceive there mist be an Ethiopian in the fuel supply."

It is rumored that the Hays office has of late been letting down the bars, and "My Little Chickadee" supplies evidence to bear out this contention. Very typical is the scene where Flower Belle puts an exotic goat in Guthbert J. Twillie's bed. "My dear," admonishes Fields, as he climbs in beside her. "you shouldn't be wearing your fur coat at a time like this."