"A BEDTIME STORY."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 205, 31 August 1933, Page 8

"A BEDTIME STORY."

NEW CHEVALIER ROMANCE. Maurice Chevalier divides honours with Baby Leroy in the success of "A Bedtime Story," coming to the Regent Theatre to-morrow. The baby plays quite t an important part in the film, being seen as much as Chevalier himself. The plot of "A Bedtime Story" is very slender, but provides the French star with an effective background for his particular motifs. A d-ebonair fellow < with whom every woman in Paris falls deeply in love at first sight, Rene decides to have one night to himself. While he is renewing acquaintance with his chauffeur, a couple of foster parents place an unwanted babe in his luxurious limousine. Rene takes a liking to the little fellow and determines to keep him and bring, him up. The services of his man servant (Edward Everett Horton) are not elastic enough for Monsieur Baby's requirements, so a nurse is engaged. The baby and nurse claim Rene's undivided attention, and he eventually develops into a slave to the pretty nurse and adopted child. The film is said to provide Chevalier with plenty of scope for husli-a-bye melodies, and E. E. Horton with opportunities for his whimsicalities. An apache dance will be presented nightly on the stage by Miss Margaret O'Connor and Mr. Ted Priestley.