Anglo-French, German, Italian, and, here, Hungarian co-produced musicals were surprisingly popular in Britain in the 1930s. The Lilac Domino has personal, nostalgic associations for me, since it was the first film that I saw as a child that I had not chosen to see, and it taught me that the tastes of others were often quite valid! It's a totally plotless (or perhaps absurdly complicated) excuse for much full-blooded singing and dancing from both the peasantry and the nobility, with June Knight a fine partner to Michael Bartlett, and S. Z. Sakall surprisingly at ease with his English dialogue several years before, according to Hollywood publicity, he played his first American roles phonetically. It's a handsome production, owing much of its gloss to cameraman (and unofficial co-director) Lee Garmes. William K. Everson