RIVOLI THEATHE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 128, 26 November 1938, Page 7

RIVOLI THEATHE.

"The Perfect Specimen."

"The Perfect Specimen," starring Errol Flynn and Joan Blondell, is the next change at the Rivoli Theatre. The film shows Errol as being reared by an eccentric and immensely rich grandmother, who wants him to be perfect in every way—as perfect as scores of tutors can make him. Joan Blondell, curious to get a close-up look at this paragon of whom she has only heard, drives her car through a light fence on his estate, takes her 109k at him, then driyes away. His curiosity aroused by this stunt, Flynn next day gets an old car, drives to where Joan lives in an adjoining village, and runs his machine through her fence. Then he persuades her to take a ride with him. A truck driver starts an altercation and Errol—who has been perfected in boxing as in other things— gives him a thorough thrashing. Then, told by the truck driver that he will lose 150 dollars by not appearing in the ring at a teamster's picnic, Flynn offers to substitute for him, and does so, knocking out a burly heavyweight much bigger than himself. The grandmother, missing Errol by this time, sends out an alarm that he has been kidnapped. He abets this by keeping out of sight, since he has come to love the kind of life he finds, outside the estate where he has been reared, especially since Joan sticks by him. A poet—played by Hugh Herbert—helps the young pair, and no end of hilarious complications ensue. But' everything is nicely straightened out in the end and "The Perfect Specimen" fades out on an uproariously funny situation.