"IT'S LOVE I'M AFTER."

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 20, 25 January 1939, Page 4

"IT'S LOVE I'M AFTER."

COMEDY FOR EMBASSY, Movie fans have seen Leslie Howard and Bette Davis together in tragedy anu melodrama, and now t'ney are }°°*~ tiliem in comedv of the most OJTSS! nature. '-It's Love I'm After is the titw _ of the tiJm, and it is tominc w the Embassy Theatre to-morrow. **""* ing bv advance reports, it offers cmr elusive proof, if any were needed, 01 to* fart that Howard and Miss Davis are ideal team mates, no matter what angle tneix starring vehicle may take. It te» splendid receptions from Press and 0«?j£ alike, wherever it has been shown. »», de Havilland is the other principal, «» she gives a performance that measures w to her best—which is good, ««ieett, » those who have seen her in her latest ninis will tcstii'y. , . (i.Howiard is cast as a stage actor ol »» tv,pe that used to be known as rnaunw idol, and to look at whom women ivott» cluster round stage doors. Miss i»J plavs the nart of his loading ana, although there is real atiecuon the two. they wrangle incessantly, "» - each tries to "steal every scene in thev appear together. Lovcy Miss, <w Havilland portrays a smart and weaanj voung heiress who has fallen in love wwa Howard. The problem thtie created. * skilfully -worked out in the development of the plot, to the accompaniment <k plenty of wisecracking, and some glonouslv' funiiv situations. Others in the east aie'Patric Kin>wl.-s. Kric BWe. Bonita Granville, Geo-.v ■ DarMer and £. i". Clive.