OUTSTANDING COMEDY

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 109, 1 February 1940, Page 14

OUTSTANDING COMEDY

“The Housekeeper’s Daughter” For King’s Theatre Au outstanding comedy, one of the gayest and most exciting comedies to reach the screen in recent months, “The Housekeepers Daughter,” will be shown at the King’s Theatre, Wellington, from tomorrow. The producer and director of this merry farce was Hal Roach, responsible for such other highly successful films as “Topper” and “Merrily We Live,” and he had under his charge a well-chosen cast headed by Joan Bennett, Adolphe Menjoii, Peggy Wood, John Hubbard, Donald Meek, and William G argan. “'l’he Housekeeper's Daughter” is a fast-moving, lively comedy-romance, smartly fashioned to contain all the elements of entertainment and an original idea which may sweep the country. Joan Bennett playa Ike alluring daughter of a housekeeper who leaves her underworld boy friend flat to return to her mother, who works for the socially prominent Randall family. Learning that the family has left town for the slimmer, the heroine i.s pleasamly surprised to discover that Ihe young and handsome scion of the family, played by John Hubbard, one of the screen’s new leading men, has decided to stay in town and brave the summer heat. Young Randall is determined to enter into newspaper work, and h<> accomplishes this feat very easily by using his father’s influence. Aided and abetted by the housekeeper’s daughter, ho attaches himself Io a murder mystery, and from I hen on this new film proceeds nt. a terrific pace, introducing merry mixups’ and unexpected complications. The gayest scenes of the film revolve around a. gang of underworld hoodlums who are scared oil: by a fireworks celebru--11 ion.