DE LUXE THEATRE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 71, 21 September 1939, Page 6

DE LUXE THEATRE

Tomorrow's Programme,

i3 ck Pow*ll and Olivia de Havilland an entirely new romantic duo, "HarriT 6r ft thl leadin S roles °* Hard To Get," a breezy, fast-moving Sf dy wl^ many farcical complications which opens tomorrow at the De Luxe Theatre. Dick does not, si XX 1' IS 3*,* smZ%.™ W» latest" piS ture. He is an ambitious and aggressive young business man who, at tha outs u-' % shOT the manager of a combined pefrol station and car camp, . and most of the interest—as well as the ii^ical complications—arises from his efforts to interest some capitalists in S« plaS. to a chain of campsacross the country. Olivia is a spoiled and petulant heiress who buys petrol and oil at Dick's place and then finds she is without a cent to pay for it Whereupon Dick, who doesn't know who she is, uses physical force to compel her to work out her bill by sweeping out and making the beds in the ten bungalows of his camp. Her father heads the company which employs Dick, so she attempts .to get father to discharge the young man, .but her parent only laughs at her story, so she changes her tactics and tries to get her revenge by tricking Dick into laying his clans before as hardboiled a group of capitalists as has ever been annoyed by a young promoter. Two popular songs sung by Powell are "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" and "There's a Sunny Side to Every Situation." Introducing a screen character with the breeziness of a Walter Winchell and the suavity of a Philo Vance, "The 13th Man" is the associate film. A crusading district attorney is killed just prior to revealingthe thirteenth man in a crime wave. Jimmie Moran, a reporter pal of Swifty Taylor, a popular radio. announcer, is murdered while on the track of ths district attorney's killer. Swifty immediately sets to work to unravel tha mystery and in a series of tenselywrought situations, aided by his attractive secretary, who secretly. loves her boss, discovers the identity of the cunning criminal. Weldon Heybum plays the role of the radio reporter and gives a winning performance. Inez Courtney, as his secretary, again proves her fine acting ability and makes a lovely and appealing heroine.