DE LUXE THEATRE.
An Excellent Programme. ;'• ... .■ —.. .■;■, .■;{■:• Another excellent double-featu'r'a programme is announced ■ for the Ij)a Luxe Theatre, commencing tomorrow. By all odds the most hilarious, laughfilled achievement -of the career i'ot America's dean of all comics is Paramount's "Poppy," starring W. ;G. Fields. The picture is the first to give Fields fans a really satisfying quantity of'-the .master's tomfoolery atiia sitting.. -Though, the romance of Rochelle Hudson and- Richard Cromwelllßs skilfully woven into, a j dominant position in the plot, "Poppy" is pure Fields from, start to final fade-out. Lynhe Overman, Catharine Doucet, and Rosalind Keith are,outstanding as featur&d players. The associate feature, "Spendthrift," is a fast-stepping racing story of a millionaire twenty-three tim'gs over, who Had 'to squander his fortune before-he,found the right girl. TKe picture boasts a cast of featured players headed by Henry Fonda, Pat Paterson, Mary Brian, and George Ba'rbier. : Fonda has run through his fortune as the film opens,- and. the. story concerns his efforts to recoup the farhily fortune with his .favourite horse. How he finds real romance makes ur the plot. Three featurettes, including two newsreels and "Popeye the Sailor" in "Shoein' Hosses," complete a really outstanding programme at prices fo" the public. i>
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1937, Page 6
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