AMUSEMENTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 174, 25 July 1941, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

"THE LADY EVE" EMBASSY jean Barbara Stanwyck Charles Henry Fonda ••Colonel Harrington" Charlee Cobura Mr Pike Euitene Ptllette Muggsy William Demarcst Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith ... Eric Blore Director: Preston Sturges. Paramount. A film sparkling with humour and amiuing situations, "The Lady Eve" , opened a I eeason at tlie Embassy Theatre yesterday. i This up-to-date version of the old, old story of Adam and Eve has a cast headed I by Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda, both of whom have roles far different from tliosie they usually play, and their acting eeems to have benefited by the change, for it would be difficult to improve on their renderings of the parts. Aβ the wily Eve. Miss Stanwyck surpasses most of the actresses commonly associated with the siren character, while Fonda as Adam plays his role with versatility. Eugene Pallette, who took the part of Friar Tuck in '"Robin Hood," portrays a capitalist out of harmony with his setting, and Charlee Coburn as a cardeharper, \Villiam Deinarest as a bodyguard and Eric Blore as a confidence man. add not only humour but finish to the picture. Credit must also go to the expert direction of the picture by Piaston Sturges. No other director probaWy would have given thie film the uiicommonne«w of approach «ind the sparkling humour that it. posjwsoe. When screened in the United States the picture rocked audiences in a gale of laughter which swept from coast to coast, and it seems likely that it will do the same in New Zealand.

There is an excellent Bupportii»ii programme headed by a new of Time" film, dealing with the United States and the war. Something different in cartoons is given in "Pop and Mom in Wild Oysters," while a delightful study of bear cube in Paramount'.* "Breezy Little Bears." produced many chuckles from the audience.