A small-town girl (Carole Lombard), thought to be dying of radium poisoning, is given the New York-by-night tour courtesy of a large newspaper company seeking to capitalize on her last (radio)active days. "When screwball comedies were becoming civilized, this one (from a beautiful script by Ben Hecht...) is not only magnificently vicious as it takes aim at the overall phoniness of New York City and the newspaper business in general, but is a forerunner of a kind of 'black' comedy that did not become fashionable until Lubitsch's To Be or Not To Be and such subsequent comedies about death as Monsieur Verdoux and The Loved One...Fast-paced, mixing sophistry with slapstick and an unending stream of dazzling one-liners, it is one of the few comedies of its period that really doesn't date...(This) was one of the first 3-color Technicolor films to apply color to a modern, big-city story and it does it superbly well." (William K. Everson) Our print is restored from the Technicolor original.