OUTSTANDING STARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 5

OUTSTANDING STARS.

EMBASSY'S EASTER FILM. Light and breezy, with a hilarious theme that makes it the idea] holiday entertainment, "Three Love* Has Xancy," is the feature production thai ■nil! be released at the Embassy Theatre to-morrow for the Easter season. Three outstanding players take the leadin? roles. They are Janet Gaynor, Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone, while others prominent are Guy Kibbee. Claire Doiid. Reginald Owen. Cora Witherspoon and Charley Grapewin. In the development of the plot a successful novelist, played by Montgomer?. persuades his publisher Tone I to send him on a lecture tour. In a little Southern town he meet* a girl. Actually, he has pone on tour to get away from a designing actress, but he finds himself in grealoi difficulties with the small-town girl. Eventually he and his publisher become rival* for the girl, and the fun is fast ami furious. A fast-moving piece. "Thi-e= Loves Has Xancy"' should become one of the lomedies of the year. Director of this brilliant comedy 5« Richard Thorpe, the man who gave us "The Crowd Roars." recently. Worthy of especial mention for excellent characterisations are Guy Kibee. in the part of the bewildered father and Owen as the lightfingered butler.