REGENT THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 138, 7 March 1942, Page 10

REGENT THEATRE

There is an old adage about a “woman, a horse and a walnut tree . . And. while Robert Young scarcely employs physical force on his wife, he certainly gives her enough mental upsets to make a most entertaining film of “Married Bachelor,” now in its second week at the Regent Theatre. , , , Ruth Hussey is tlie wife and she lias fullv justified the faith placed in her by far-seeing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who have carefully schooled this excellent young actress through a number of minor films to the important position she occupies today. “Married Bachelor is the best rale she has had. Lacking her husband’s enthusiasm for keeping one step ahead of the bankruptcy court and the bailiffs, she timorously suggests that it might be a good idea if he acquired a job that paid the rent at the encl of the week. But Robert Young, as the cheerful inconsequential husband, embarks on a bookmaking business (on a very small scale, to quote his own intentions). ... However, be accepts a large bet which he cannot possibly pay so he takes the hat round his other clients. Among them ; s a professor who cannot pay his debts so he hands Young the manuscript of a new book as payment. Young passes on the book to a publisher, ns one of his own and soon a pertinent book on marriage, “By a Bachelor." is being read by everyone in New York. The difficulty is that Robert Voting has to pose as a bachelor, a situation that bis wife does not find very amusing. Ruth Hussey is perfect in the nart of Hie wife who presents a smiling face to -New York but is secretly as mad as a hatter at being put in such an invidious position. “Married Bachelor is good tun. It should go on the “must" list of everyone who appreciates neat, sophisticated comedy.