Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 7, 1936

Swing Time (RKO) is the sixth item in that series of exhibitions of sublimated hoofing which have made the team of Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire currently the No. 1 cinema attraction of the world. It contains: three major routines by Rogers & Astaire, one by Astaire alone in blackface; six songs by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields of which at least two, The Way You Look Tonight and A Fine Romance, are likely to be hits; a story in which Astaire, as a dancer, and Rogers, as a dance teacher, are united after financial and emotional vicissitudes contributed mainly by the ex-fiancée of one and the exboyfriend of the other.

For cinemaddicts to whom the release of any Rogers-Astaire vehicle does not automatically constitute the major news of the week, this one may do so on the ground that in it Comedian Victor Moore, whose impersonation of Vice President Throttlebottom in Of Thee I Sing gained him more fame than has ever fallen to any actual, holder of that office, makes his screen debut.