have enjoy jean arthur in the devil and miss jones and my interest be peak and so i try sit through this second string screwball out about an investigation into the death of a jockey but i do not make it to the end . arthur and photograph in a gauzy and movie magazine fashion and either want alimony from ex husband william powell or another shot at marriage and but i never felt for her because the character be just a string of wisecrack ( she the type of heroine prone to comical curiousness and but once inside a morgue like all woman in these 30 comedy she faint ) . william powell reportedly have a high time work with miss arthur and but you would never know it from the end result while they look awkward stand next to each other and hesitant over their banter . the actor play powell valet be excruciate and and the pause for viewer laugh be pregnant with unease .