For the life of me I cannot see why people should pay to see a thing like this when they can see a first-class revue on the stage, even aside from the novelty value of the cinema show.

| Mar 6, 2021

As a step forward in the march of sound cinema the film deserves respectful consideration.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 6, 2021

This production has the usual backstage love story which manages to be amusing despite the fact it contains no impressive acting and no originality. An "Undersea Ballet" permits the use of technicolor to a spectacle sequence.

| Mar 6, 2021

Some of the singing is not as effective as one might hope for, due perhaps to the theatre's reproducing device, but it is a picture that has been produced with a pleasing sense of humor and with no little photographic skill.

| Mar 6, 2021

The producers of this entertainment have challenged comparison with the great Broadway revues and must take the consequences.

| Mar 6, 2021

Some parts are well screened. A little less singing, thought by many to be excessive in a number of late "talkies," probably would make it a better show.

| Mar 6, 2021

Here is a musical show which has been fashioned purposely to meet the requirements of the motion picture screen.

| Mar 6, 2021

What really will make a hit is probably the "Breakaway" dance, in which Sue Carol takes the lead. A typical heel-tapping, side-kicking, stepping specialty, this mild marathon is likely to be taken up as a sequel to the Charleston.

| Mar 6, 2021

It's good entertainment all the way and occasionally arresting in Its implications of the possibilities to come.

| Mar 6, 2021

This is, as the title indicates, a musical comedy, with plentiful singing and dancing, and with stage settings that are beautiful and impressive. As to the story, it is slight.

| Mar 6, 2021

Good cast, good music, good scenic effects.

| Mar 6, 2021

A highly entertaining, colorful and effective screen musical comedy.

| Mar 6, 2021

The photography showed considerable ingenuity and musical arrangements were painstaking and elaborate.

| Mar 6, 2021

There are some good songs in these picture follies, some dandy dancing and some scenes, done in color, which are handsome.

| Mar 6, 2021

Sure, it's a good entertainment. I'm only disappointed It wasn't better.

| Mar 6, 2021

Another good example of the manner in which the "talkies" are destroying some of the most cherished traditions of the screen is obtained in a film styled the Fox Movietone Follies of 1929.

| Mar 6, 2021

Sue Carol is a surprise. She sings and dances pleasingly and does a number with David Rollins that audiences will eat up. Stepin Fetchit, as comedy relief, is refreshingly funny.

| Mar 6, 2021

You'll find yourself absorbed by the spectacle and, if you don't go away humming those good tunes, we'll be surprised.

| Mar 6, 2021

Follies of 1929 goes down as lively and infectious entertainment.

| Mar 6, 2021

The dancing numbers are extremely good, the spectacular features -- including a reel in colors of a typical Follies type -- are elaborate, finely managed, admirably photographed.

| Mar 6, 2021