EVERYBODY'S THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20257, 8 June 1931, Page 7

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE.

"THEY HAD TO SEE PARIS."

"When the best known and most loved American personality is both hoard and seen on the screen* then it may surely be called an sv«nt. To-day Will , Rogers,, the quaint philosopher and the naive wit who is usually the friend of royalty and the common people, will come "to Everybody's Theatre in his iirst Fox Movietone starring picture, "They Had to See Paris." "They Had to See Paris'* flta Will Rogers like, a clove. It starts in his home town, Claremore. Oklahoma, where we find Will happy and contentcul .with his wife (Irene Rich),, and his son and daughter (Owen Davis, '■ jun., and Marguerite Churchill). Oil gushes on their land. They become rich, and Will's family cots bitten with the social bug. They want to go to Paris and absorb culture and Other thingß. Oklahoma oil and Frcrich cognac don't mix, boweveri and the result is highly humorous, h«t, in a way, pathetic. Complication fol* iowj complication, and they go back to Okla* homa broken only ia spirit. Rogers qualifies (is a highly emotional actor as well as a comedian. In Paris, Mrs Peter* is determined to marry her daughter to a, title. an 4 when Peters refuses to pay half a million dollars to consummate this desire, Mrs Peters,. in a frensy of bitter disappointment, turns on her husband nnd given him a severe tongue' lashing. Among other things, she tells him she and her (laughter are both ashamed of him, and that she never wants to see his face again. Peter*'* leave-taking, ah enacted by Rogers, i« a marvel, of dramatic exposition. .Bos planp at The Qristoi.