Emma Foster (Helen Broderick) could be the next "Happy Noodles Mrs. America" if her weary husband Otis (Victor Moore) cooperates with the homemaking contest's emasculating demands, including sewing a dress and straightening up a room in record time. But when a scheming judge (Frank M. Thomas) guesses that Otis would prefer tickets to a back alley performance by "Princess Zarina, the fan dancer" (Ada Leonard), all hell breaks loose. Helen Broderick is most famous as the straight-talking gal pal to Fred and Ginger in Top Hat (1935) and Swing Time (1936), but she made 34 other pictures that highlighted her no-guff charm. Here, in this light comedy that also provides a time capsule view on the contest craze of the Depression, a rare leading role highlights Broderick's unique screen quality that her playwright friend Moss Hart described as "part vitriol and part my favorite person in the world."

By Violet LeVoit