CURRENT FILMS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 159, 18 April 1949, Page 5

CURRENT FILMS

ST. JAMES THEATRE

With, Gary Grant, Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple in the stellar roles, “The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer” (now at the St. .Tames Theatre) is offered as- a romantic comedy of an artist who becomes involved in romantic complications with a woman jurist and her bobby-soxer sister. The younger girl becomes infatuated with the artist when he delivers a lecture at her high school, and- decides to bring herself to his attention by going to his apartment, where she falls asleep. The artist finds her there at 2 a.m., and is just about to take her homo when the judge bounces in on he trail of her kid sister, and completely misunderstands the situation. She is all for sending the artist to the penitentiary, hut the court psychiatrist points out that the girl’s infatuation can he easily cured if she sees enough of the older man. So the artist, to avoid prosecution, is forced to take the bobby-soxer to all sorts of student function's. While this makes tlie girl’s boy-friend jealous, it also results in the artist becoming intrigued with the pretty judge, and the ensuing complications keep * the romantic pot boiling merrily.