CLAUDETTE IN PARIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 200, 24 August 1937, Page 10

CLAUDETTE IN PARIS.

MEW COMEDY FOR EMBASSY. Claudette Colbert is charming and vivacious among three wooers of very different types in "I Met Him in Paris," a bright picture with a winter sports background, which was given a preview showing yesterday at the Embassy Theatre, where it will be released publicly. The heroine leads her suitors a merry dance in this romantic comedy of a New York dress designer who has saved enough money to have a holiday in Paris and Switzerland. While it does not reach the standard of "It Happened One Night" or "She Married Her Boss," the film is cleverly contrived. Its story, if superficial, has originality, and is kept on a merrily entertaining level, while the dialogue is delightfully pointed. It is all intended to exploit the grace and charm of Claudette Colbert, but Melvyn Douglas, ae the honest and discerning wooer, and Robert Young, as the playboy, have big roles, and act them in capita] style. These two meet Claudette in Paris and intensify their competition for her affection in Switzerland, while Lee Bowman, in the small role of her stodgy fiance, awaits her return to New York.

Claudette makes each in turn look ridiculous and tells each what she thinks of him. Sometimes she is serious, at other times the born comedienne.

A synthetic St. Moritz was created by the producers in the Sun Valley, Idaho, and in the winter sports scenes, beautifully photographed, Claudette is not only charming and clever but comically undignified with her heels up in a snowdrift, meeting misadventure in a bobsled chute.

Mona Barrie. the Australian actress, makes an effective entry near the close as the playboy's pleasantly sophisticated wife, and there is an amusing scene where she spoils his romance.