The Dryden will screen The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch, U.S. 1934, 99 min., 35mm) for a Senior Matinee.

"It is a good show in the excellent Lubitsch manner, heady as the foam on champagne, fragile as mist and as delicately gay as a good-natured censor will permit. Victor Leon and Leo Stein have arranged a book to suit the Lubitsch style and the songs which fall to Miss Macdonald and Mr. Chevalier have grace and wit. All of the sets are consummately lovely and a few of them are entrancing enough to persuade a Moslem that he has departed this life for the paradise promised by the Prophet. Now it is the microscopic kingdom of Marshovia which Herr Lubitsch is investigating, with a long hop to Paris and Maxime's, where, sings the balladist, a man can watch the can-can. Is Captain Danilo of the Royal Guard the most audacious philanderer in Marshovia? He is. Is the widow Sonia the ultimate bewilderment of a young man's dream? She is. Sonia also, on the King's word, has 52 per cent of every cow in the country. When she vacates the country and takes up quarters in Paris. Marshovia looks sick. Danilo must go to Paris and pretend to fall in love with her so that she may be restored to her native land." — Andre Sennwald, The New York Times (1934)

[source: Dryden website, 2015-Jul-15]