PLAZA THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 108, 3 November 1939, Page 4

PLAZA THEATRE.

"Bachelor Mother."

Paired for the first time, Ginger Rogers and David Niven are co-starred ■■in "Bachelor Mother," which is in its third week at the Plaza Theatre. Weaving a unique and clever love story into its hilarious plot "Bachelor Mother" has Ginger as a salesgirl in a metropolitan department store, in which Niven appears as the store's efficient and business-lake executive son of the owner, played by Charles 1 Coburn. Passing by an orphanage '• during her lunch hour, Ginger espies a woman leaving a baby on the steps and rush away. She goes to pick up the child and is seen by one of the institution's matrons, who assumes that Ginger is the baby's mother. Her denials merely make matters worse, and an investigator is sent to the department store to check up. This brings Ginger to Niven's attention, who magnanimously enhances her job—if she will be a good "mother" and take proper care of "her" baby! Ginger goes berserk and desperately endeavours to make the orphanage take the child. Failing, she tries to wish it on to Niven, Horrified, Niven lectures her on lier inhuman conduct, and [using her job as a threat, forces her [to rear the youngster. The consequent association between Ginger and Niven arouses the jealousy of her selfappointed boy friend, a young stock clerk in the store, who anonymously misinforms Coburn that Niven is the father of Ginger's child. This leads to the hilarious climax of the picture, when Coburn tries to make Niven marry the girl so that he may claim the infant as "his avaniidtva^. y