IRONIC FILM COMEDY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 216, 12 September 1935, Page 8

IRONIC FILM COMEDY.

"LADY TUBBS" FOR CIVIC

For Rosy O'Gnuly And the Colonel's lady Are sislers under tile .skin

Rudyard Kipling's famous linos are again proven in ''Lady Tubtw," the rollicking comedy which opens a season to-morrow at the Civic Theatre, with Alice Brady in the featured role. Indeed, the motion picture goes the poem one better, and demonstrates that botli can be under the same akin.

In the opening sequences of the story Mii*! Brady is seen as the cook at a railway construction camp in Kansas, "mothering ,, the men with rough good humour. She is greatly disturbed when she learns that Wynne, the pretty niece she has put through college, is unable to marry Phil, the young man of her heart, because her lack of family connections make her unacceptable to the boy'e wealthy and snobbisli parents. At this juncture, however, the cook inherits a 500,000 dollar fortune. Soon afterwards she returns to New York masquerading under the spurious title of "Lady Tubbs," and she and her piece are now received with open arms by the title-worshipping Long Islanders, who formerly refused to welcome the girl into their home.

"Lady Tubbs" is all-in-all a clever and most entertaining study, for all its gentle irony, of the rich in any country. Appearing with Miss Brady in the film are Douglass Montgomery, Anita Louise. June Clayworth, Alan Mowbray, Hedda Hopper and Lumsden Hare.