ST. JAMES THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 64, 12 September 1940, Page 5

ST. JAMES THEATRE.

"Lucky To Me."

The ideal kind of film to drive away cares of any kind will be found at the St. James Theatre tomorrow in "Lucky To Me." Stanley Lupino and lovely Phyllis Brooks head a cast that makes this comedy go with a bang. Hilarious fooling is staged at a country house party where Stanley is forced to spend a weekend which ought to have been his secret honeymoon. Wifey, played by Barbara Blair, goes along as his secretary and has a very disappointing (time; her bridegroom is knocked about more than once by an over-chivalrous boxing peer who loves rescuing distressed blondes. As.a piquant sauce to an appetising dish of entertainment, there is a boxing ballet and a few rounds of the real thing, a bathing dance with Lupino in a coy Victorian bathing dress, a notable song by Gene Sheldon in praise of fish, sung to a guitar, and other numbers that will jingle pleasantly in the ears for days after the show. This is Phyllis Brooks's first starring role. Phyllis was a much photographed young lady and had faced the cameras of nearly every famous photographer in the U.S.A. before a Hollywood talent scout q,ffered her a contract. She played in "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," "In Old Chicago," "Up the River," and "Little Miss Broadway" before coming to England for a starring role m "Lucky To Me." Her more serious acting powers will be seen in Edgar Wallace's "The Flying Squad," to which production she went after completing the Lupino comedy.