COMEDY COMING TO KING'S.

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 157, 31 December 1940, Page 9

COMEDY COMING TO KING'S.

Colman and Ginger Rogers.

Making their debut as a co-starring team Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers participate in a sparkling set of movie adventures in "Lucky Partners," the R.K.O. feature to commence screening at the King's Theatre next Friday, It has a splendid cast and presents a love and laugh adventure that is finally straightened out in amusing court scenes that lead to a real honeymoon. Colman's character- • isation of a carefree Village eccentric equals any of hfs past performances and Ginger Rogers is a treat as a for-tune-hunting fiancee who finds, im-: stead, another man for a husband. The settings are at New. York Greenwich Village, a Niagara Falls hotel, and in a little up-country town. Colman, as a mysterious village artist, meets Ginger, already engaged, and joins her in the purchase of a sweepstake ticket He recognises in her man a complacent armchair mate and makes a stipulation that should they win she must accompany him on a strictly platonic honeymoon before she marries, because the prospective husband is no: believer in wasting money on suca things as honeymoons. The ticket is lucky. It draws a horse and the trip eventuates. What happens afterwards when the husband that was to be blunders into the scene brings all manner of people into the affair in mirth-provoking situations that ar_e highly diverting. Spring Byington is a fluttery aunt, Harry Davenport an irascible Judge, and Cecilia Loftus and Brandon Tynan an old married* couple. Jack Carson, as a young insurance man, adequately fills the role of the husband that was to be. . ;