"AREN'T MEN BEASTS?"

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 21

"AREN'T MEN BEASTS?"

■ "Aren't Men Beasts?" is a hilarious iomedy. Trie story is of a wedding-daj Jnishap, and it is so much a succe.jglor ■of piquant situations i;hat it can'hardlj •be: summarised in detail. Roger (Billj JVlilton) is about to be married wher Jiis father,- Herbert : Holly (Robertsor SHare)',' an ultra-respectable widowed Rental surgeon, is utterly compromised •by a foreign woman' who invades hij Surgery, and after declaring that the Jvedding will not take place, informs Jhe police that he has assaulted her is arrested,' but makes good 3iis escape .with the hslp of a fruit and goes straight to the home •of his son, Roger. From then on the 351 m consists of attempts by .Roger and jiis married friend Thomas Potter tc ■secret Herbert and explain Roger's inability to turn up ;at the wedding to f/[arie, his. prospective bride; Things hen begin-;.to' get a little tangled, and She laughs that ensue are riotous, and ■poor Herbert is forced into many situations which are foreign to his benign «md somewhat timid nature. Robertson Jlare is excellent in this.role. June Clyde is' delightful in her role as fiancee* Marie, while Roger and Potter keep the audience in outbursts of laughter from beginning to end. : , "THE DOMINANT SEX." Z "The Dominant Sex," which is a £leyer play- ■, by the world-famous ■Michael Egan, loses none of its charm *nd appeal through being adapted' to Jhe screen. Diana Churchill, who has ■been seen lately in' British International Pictures, gives, a stirring perJormance as Angela, and Phillips •Holmes enacts the role of Dick, her Jiusband, with skilful versatility. The Story is a true-to-life tale of marriage, which, shows how ridiculously small -matters can develop into quarrels and Jiartings. There is.drama in the film, Jut for the most part it is a light comedy into which drama is occasionally injected.